A New Species of Guzmania Ruiz & Pav. (Bromeliaceae) from Venezuela

摘要

A new species of Bromeliaceae, Guzmania loeflingiana, is described and illustrated. It appears to be related to G. cylindrica. The genus Guzmania (Bromeliaceae: Tilland-sioideae), comprises 212 species (Luther 2012) distributed in the Americas, in thesouthern USA (Florida), Mexico and the Antilles south to Brazil and Peru (Smith & Downs 1977; Utley 1994; Smith 1998). It includes approximately 6% of the species in the family. In the last full treatment of the genus for the country, 27 species were included in the Flora de Venezuela (Smith 1971). Subsequently in other formats, Holst (1994, 1997) and Holst and Vivas (2008) reported 28 species.The number rises to 29 with the description of this new species.