Corresponding author: Andrea Ferreira da Costa ( afcosta@acd.ufrj.br ) Academic editor: Juliana de Paula-Souza © 2018 Igor Musauer Kessous, Dayvid Rodrigues Couto, Fernando Pérez Uribbe, Andrea Ferreira da Costa. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Kessous IM, Couto DR, Uribbe FP, Costa AF (2018) New records of Vriesea agostiniana E.Pereira, and Vriesea saltensis Leme & L. Kollmann (Bromeliaceae, Tillandsioideae) from southeastern Brazil. Check List 14(1): 37-41. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.1.37 |
Vriesea Lindl. (Bromeliaceae) has its center of diversity in eastern Brazil, especially in the Atlantic Rainforest domain. The present study extended the distribution of V. agostiniana to São Paulo state and V. saltensis to Espírito Santo state; they were previously considered endemic to single locations in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais, respectively. Species descriptions, taxonomic comments, and new distribution maps are presented, contributing to our knowledge of the taxonomy and biogeography of Vriesea in southeastern Brazil.