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Alcantarea recurvifolia Leme

Publ: Phytotaxa 177(2): 75-78 (2014)

Type: BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Gouveia, entrance to Fazenda do Zezé (Milton) do Louro, secondary road on the right, 1345 m elevation, 18º32’45”S 43º51’16”W, 6 August 2010, E.Leme 8419, E.Guarçoni & R.Oliveira (holotype RB, isotype HB).

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Distribution: BRAZIL. Minas Gerais

Habitat: a typical rupicolous species of the Campos Rupestres of the Diamantina Plateau, under intense sunlight on bare quartzitic outcrops, ca 1350 m. Elev.

Etymology: The name of this new species is an explicit reference to the recurved leaf blades which allows its identification even when sterile.

Alcantarea recurvifolia