Bromeliaceae
Racinaea
Racinaea tetrantha

Racinaea tetrantha var. caribaea (L.B.Sm.) M.A.Spencer & L.B.Sm.

First published in Phytologia 74: 158 (1993)
This variety is accepted
The native range of this variety is Cuba to Hispaniola, N. South America to N. Brazil. It is an epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Brazil North, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. [Cited as Tillandsia tetrantha var. caribaea.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Barbosa-Silva, R.G. & al. (2016). Over the hills and far away: New plant records from the Guayana Shield in Brazil. Brittonia 68: 397-408.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 5, 1983 Fendler, A. [1523] Venezuela Tillandsia caribaea K000321934 Type Yes

Sources

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0