identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
184B878AE202F83AFF02CEB6E0B36475.text	184B878AE202F83AFF02CEB6E0B36475.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Guzmania altomayoensis Gouda 2025	<div><p>Guzmania altomayoensis Gouda, sp. nov. Figs. 1 and 2.</p><p>Diagnose: —A Guzmania striata like species but more robust and much taller, flowering 130 cm tall (vs. 70 cm), wider leaf blades (to 6 cm vs. 3 cm), the lower ones narrowly rounded and apiculate (vs. narrowly caudate), inflorescence lax with an elongate axis (vs. subdense, axis short), peduncle 11–13 mm in diameter (vs. 7 mm), spikes 9–12 cm long and 3–3.5 cm in diameter (vs. 5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter), floral bracts c. 3 cm long (vs. 2 cm long), sepals rounded then acutish or acuminate and cream colored (vs. obtuse and castaneous).</p><p>Type: — Peru, San Martin, Alto Mayo region, 2000 m elevation, s.d. Jeffrey Kent s.n., flowered in cultivation at Antura Bleiswijk (NL) March 2025 (holotype U, isotype HUT) .</p><p>Description:—Plant c. 60 cm tall, 135 cm wide, flowering 130 cm tall, acaulescent, not dense, with c. 40 leaves, forming an open rosette, lustrous-green. Leaves spirally arranged, thin coriaceous, 70–75 cm long, shorter than the peduncle; sheath ample, merging into the blade, stiff-coriaceous, ovate, stiff-convex in transection, divergent, c. 20 cm long, 9.5 cm wide, with hyaline margins, subdensely lepidote on both sides (adaxially less toward the base), with closely appressed pale-brown trichomes, brown striate to castaneous at the base abaxially and green in the upper 2/3, even; blade arching, somewhat stiff and thin coriaceous, strongly channeled except the apical part, strapshaped (linear oblong), 48–64 cm long, to 6.5 cm wide at the base, margins firm, with many longitudinal groves (especially the inner ones); apex narrowly rounded and apiculate to narrowly acuminate in the inner ones, the inner ones pungent, sparsely lepidote on both sides, with minute punctulate trichomes, not masking the color of the blade. Inflorescence erect, once-branched, of 6–8 spirally arranged branches, 107 cm long, fertile part 42 cm long, c. 20 cm wide/diameter, lax; peduncle elongate, wholly covered by bracts, erect, stout, c. 75 cm long, 13 mm in diam., glabrous, cream colored and red striate; peduncle bracts erect and clasping the peduncle, the lower ones short foliaceous and suberect, densely imbricate, the lower ones much exceeding to about twice as long as the internodes distally, thin coriaceous, 8–11 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, ovate and triangular attenuate, acuminate and pungent, sparsely lepidote (more adaxially toward the base), green to brown at the base and red striate and marginate; axis (rachis) elongate, stout, flexuous, 3–4angled, glabrous, tinged reddish or vinaceous, internodes 3–4 cm long; primary bracts spreading with the branches, exposing the main axis, thin rigid-coriaceous, 4.5–6 cm long, 5 cm wide, ovate, acuminate, exceeding the sterile part of the branches, red striate; spikes divergent to spreading, very densely, polystichously c. 70 flowered, terete, fusiform, subobtuse, 9–12 cm long, 3–3.5 cm wide, with a bicarinate prophyll well above the base, terminal spike longer and subcylindrical with two remote bracts at the base; stipes (of the lateral spikes) short, naked, very stout (1.4 cm in diameter), 1.2 cm long, glabrous; floral bracts suberect, very densely imbricate, thin coriaceous, even except near the apex, ecarinate but with a subapical elevated thickened and incurved midvein, obovate, rounded or broadly obtuse (spitting open when stretched), slightly inflated, c. 3 cm long, 1.9 cm wide, much exceeding the sepals, many times longer than the internodes, concealing the rachis, with narrow hyaline margins, abaxially glabrous (adaxially sparsely brown appressed lepidote especially toward the apex), green and red striate in the center to red toward the margins. Flowers nocturnal, sessile, without the petals 6.5 mm in diameter, 36 mm long (petals stretched), not fragrant, contiguous with each other and the rachis (suberect); receptacle short, broadly obconic, 3 mm long, 5.6 mm in diameter, filled with laminar nectary tissue; sepals stiff-coriaceous to fleshy at the base, surface even or slightly nerved toward the apex and adaxially, symmetrical, obovate, rounded then acutish or acuminate, stiffly convex, 1.6–1.7 cm long, 0.8–0.9 cm wide, with hyaline margins, adaxial ones distinct from the abaxial one, adaxial ones bluntly carinate, evenly short connate for 3 mm, glabrous, lustrous, cream colored; petals not fleshy, 3.3 cm long, 0.6– 0.7 cm wide, lingulate, rounded and slightly cucullate, with oblong-oblanceolate blade, highly connate and forming a tube of about 14 mm long, white, blade spreading. Stamens exserted caused by spreading of the petal-blades, all equal in length, 1.6 cm long, shorter than the pistil; filament largely conglutinate to the petals, adnate part flat and thin but the free part dilated, free part s-shaped, white, distally abruptly acuminate; anther dorsifixed at about one third from base, with strongly recurved upper half, 4–5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, short bi-lobed at the base, obscurely apiculate, green, pollen cream colored. Pistil exceeding the stamens, 2.7 cm long; ovary subpyriform, 4.5 mm long, 3 mm wide, attenuate from near the base and slightly contracted into the style, largely superior, pale green; style elongate, 3-4 times longer than the ovary, slender, white; stigma simple erect (weekly conduplicate) and slightly wider than the style, densely papillose at the margins, greenish.</p><p>Observations: —This new species resembles the much smaller Guzmania striata Smith (1959: 438) . Obvious differences are the size, flowering 130 cm tall (vs. 70 cm), the much broader leaf blades (to 6 cm vs. 3 cm), the outer ones rounded and apiculate (vs. narrowly acuminate) and lax inflorescence with much longer spikes 9–12 cm long (vs. subdense inflorescence, spikes 5 cm long), for more detailed differences see Table 1. It also resembles Guzmania altsonii Smith (1930: 7) in some way, especially the sharply pungent peduncle bracts and inner leaves, which is rare in the genus. The later has more slender (fusiform) spikes 3.5-6(-8.2) cm long, ca 2 cm in diameter and 10-20-flowered (vs. 9-12 cm long, 3-3.5 cm in diameter and c. 70 flowered).</p><p>Etymology: —the name refers to Alto Mayo, the area where the type specimen was collected.</p><p>Phenology:—the plant started to flower in culture in March and flowering could continue for several months (because of the many flowered spikes), it is not clear if this would be similar in the wild.</p><p>Conservation Status: —No information about the populations is available to the author, so the conservation status should be considered DD (Data Deficient).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/184B878AE202F83AFF02CEB6E0B36475	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gouda, Eric J.	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Guzmania altomayoensis (Bromeliaceae): a New Species from Peru related to Guzmania striata L. B. Sm. Phytotaxa 721 (2): 175-180, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.721.2.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.721.2.5
