taxonID	type	description	language	source
03CF9458FFD1FFDCFF0DF927FEBDFE4A.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — Colombia, Antioquia, Amalfi, 1200 m. J. Kent s. n., fl. cult. 2023 in collection E. J. Gouda with number EG- 1215 (holotype: U).	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
03CF9458FFD1FFDCFF0DF927FEBDFE4A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — A Racinaea spiculosa like species, plant with a few erect leaves forming a very narrow subbulbous rosette (vs. many leaves forming a more open or funnelform rosette [except variety stenoglossa, but that variety has the spikes secund in one direction]), inflorescence twice-branched, with the primary branches spirally arranged, with 2 - 3 subdigitate spikes (vs. often distichously once-branched, and if twice branched, then the branches not subdigitate of a few spikes), floral bracts sub-membranaceous, nearly straight, broadly rounded (vs. coriaceous, often strongly incurved, obscurely apiculate), sepals membranaceous, 2.5 – 3 mm long (vs. coriaceous, 4.5 – 6 mm long), petals ca 3.2 mm long, barely if at all exceeding the sepals (vs. 5 – 6 mm long, with divergent blade). Plant 34 cmtall, acaulescent, floweringslightlytaller ifatall, subdense, with ca 10 leaves, forminga narrowly subbulbous rosette, green. Leaves spirally arranged, thin coriaceous, 23 – 27 cm long, slightly shorter than the inflorescence; sheat hs large, distinct, ovate, slightly inflated, 7 – 9 cm long, 3.5 – 4 cm wide, with narrow membranaceous margins, densely lepidote of closely appressed transparent trichomes on both sides but adaxial trichomes smaller, adaxially dark purple-red and abaxially green or often with purple red dots or bands to pale brown toward the base; blades the inner erect to slightly arching outward, strongly channeled to involute when dry, very narrowly triangular, 17 – 20 cm long, 1 – 1.7 cm wide at the base, margins strongly undulate; apex attenuately acute, on both sides with closely appressed, transparent trichomes not masking the color of the blade, green. Inflorescence terminal, sub-erect, sometimes once-branched or more often twice-branched, of 10 - 14 polystichously arranged primary branches, ca 30 cm long, fertile part ca 11 cm long, lax, green; peduncle elongate, for most part or wholly covered by bracts, erect, ca 20 cm long, 1.7 mm in diam., sparsely lepidote of star like trichomes; peduncle bracts erect and clasping the peduncle, not foliaceous, imbricate, exceeding the internodes, chartaceous, lanceolate, acute or slightly acuminate, subdensely lepidote; main axis (rachis) exposed, sub-slender, slightly flexuous, slightly excavated near the spikes, glabrescent to sparsely lepidote of star like trichomes, internodes 0.5 – 1.8 cm long; primary bracts like the peduncle bracts but soon becoming shorter, suberect or spreading with the branches, exceeding the internodes but not imbricate when erect or fully exposing the main axis, chartaceous, the lower ones narrowly ovate to ovate upward, narrowly rounded, exceeding the stipe of the branches, only adaxially distinctly nerved, green; primary branches of (1 –) 2 – 3 subdigitate spikes, lax. Spikes erect, densely distichously (3 –) 10 – 22 - flowered, complanate, narrowly oblong, irregular at the apex, 0.8 – 1.2 cm long, 0.4 cm wide, with one sterile bract at the base and the apex; stipes elongate to short upward bent, the lower ones for most part covered by 1 – 3 bracts, erect, slender, 0.3 – 1.4 cm long; rachis partly exposed, stout, geniculate, excavated near the flowers, densely lepidote of star like trichomes, the internodes 1 – 2 mm long. Floral bracts divergent with the flowers, not imbricate at anthesis, sub-membranaceous, even, ecarinate, ovate, broadly rounded, nearly straight, 4.5 mm long, 3.7 mm wide, about equaling or exceeded by the sepals, about three times as long as the internodes, with broad hyaline margins, abaxially sparsely lepidote at the base. Flowers 4.8 mm long, contiguous with each other and the rachis; receptacle (flower base) distinct, obconic, 1.5 mm long; sepals membranaceous, surface even (not obviously nerved), slightly asymmetrical, broadly obovate-oblong, emarginate, incurved toward the apex, 2.5 mm long, 3 mm wide, with broad hyaline margins, adaxial and abaxial ones all alike, free, sparsely lepidote; petals somewhat fleshy, 3.2 mm long, 2 mm wide, elliptic, rounded, free from each other, white to cream colored toward the apex, blade sightly divergent, just exceeding the sepals. Stamens deeply included, all equal in length, 2 mm long, exceeding the pistil; filaments lanceolate, fleshy and complanate, straight (not plicate), hyaline, distally attenuate; anthers dorsifixed below the middle, broadly sagittate, 0.7 mm long, bi-lobed at the base, apiculate at the apex, yellow, pollen deep yellow. Pistil 1.7 mm long; ovary globose, 1 mm long, green; style shorter than the ovary; stigma short conduplicate, erect, about as wide as the style.	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
03CF9458FFD1FFDCFF0DF927FEBDFE4A.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — This species is only known from the type locality, a warm primary rain forest, between 1000 and 2000 m elevation.	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
03CF9458FFD1FFDCFF0DF927FEBDFE4A.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The epithet ‘ minutipetala’ refers to the very small (‘ minutus’) petals (‘ petala’). Observations: — This species resembles Racinaea spiculosa (Grisebach 1865: 17) Spencer & Smith (1993: 157) and especially the plant habit of Racinaea spiculosa var. stenoglossa (Smith 1951: 151) Spencer & Smith (1993: 157), with the narrowly subbulbous or utriculate rosettes and undulate leaf margins, but this new species has a twice-branched inflorescence with the primary branches spirally arranged (vs. once branched with the spikes secund in one direction), it is also much smaller in size (flowering ca 34 cm vs. to over 1 m tall), with a peduncle in between and shorter than the leaves (vs. much exceeding the rosette and leaves). Its floral parts are also smaller and different in texture, see diagnose.	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
03CF9458FFD2FFDAFF0DFDFFFE4DFB1E.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — Peru, San Martin, N. E. of Moyobamba, 1000 to 1500 m. elev., ca 2009 J. Kent s. n., fl. cult. in collection E. J. Gouda with number EG- 1216 (U).	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
03CF9458FFD2FFDAFF0DFDFFFE4DFB1E.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — A Racinaea pugiformis like species, but the spikes are more robust and clustered suberect (vs. laxly divergent to spreading), floral bracts even, broadly obovate, rounded, 2.7 mm long, much exceeded by the sepals, green at anthesis (vs. distinctly nerved, ovate, acute, 4 – 5 mm long, equaling the sepals, often stramineous and dry at anthesis), sepals 3 x 2.3 mm, emarginate (vs. 4 – 5 x 3 mm, rounded-apiculate), petals erect, not exceeding the sepals (vs. petal blades spreading to recurving and exceeding the sepals). Plant flowering 40 – 70 cm tall, acaulescent, with ca 12 leaves, forming a funnelform rosette, green. Leaves spirally arranged, 18 – 22 cm long, much shorter than the inflorescence, but exceeding the peduncle; sheath large, contrasting with the blade in color, merging into the blade, thin coriaceous at the base to chartaceous upward, elliptic, slightly inflated, 7 – 8 cm long, 4.5 – 5 cm wide, with narrow membranaceous margins, densely lepidote on both sides with closely appressed dark centered trichomes, adaxially dark purple-red in the upper half to pale brown toward the base and abaxially; blade suberect to arching, soft, chartaceous to thin coriaceous, nearly flat, sub-ligulate to narrowly strap-shaped, 10 – 12 cm long, ca 2 cm wide, with slightly undulate margins, apex attenuately acute or narrowly acuminate, sparsely to subdensely lepidote on both sides with minute transparent trichomes not masking the color of the blade, green. Inflorescence erect, twice-branched or rarely thrice-branched of a few short spikes, with ca 10 slightly spirally arranged primary branches (ca 20 spikes in total), fertile part 20 – 48 cm long, to 12 cm wide (diameter), lax, but the spikes sub-densely clustered, fertile part paniculate, sparsely to subdensely lepidote in some parts, not masking the green coloration; peduncle short, wholly covered by bracts except at the distal end, erect, stout, 11 – 18 cm long, 2.2 – 3.5 mm in diam., sub-densely lepidote to glabrescent, exceeding the leaves, green, even; peduncle bracts erect and clasping the peduncle, not foliaceous, slightly to densely imbricate, about twice as long as the internodes or less, chartaceous, narrowly oblong, fleshy acuminate at the apex, abaxially subdensely lepidote, green; main axis (rachis) elongate, slender, slightly flexuous, terete, sparsely lepidote, but soon glabrescent, green, internodes 2 – 2.5 cm long in the lower part, becoming shorter upwards; primary bracts divergent to spreading with the branches, remote, chartaceous, like the upper peduncle-bracts but slightly shorter and upwards decreasing in size, with broad hyaline margins, apiculate, exceeding the stipes of the branches. Spikes erect or slightly divergent and ascending, laxly distichously (4 –) 10 – 18 flowered, complanate, linear-oblong, (2 –) 5 – 7.5 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, with one or a few sterile flowers at the base and the apex; stipes short to prominent, the lower with a few bracts, not bracteate upwards, spreading to a right angle with the axis, but ascending and appearing divergent, the lower ones slender, 0.3 – 3.3 cm long; stipe bracts erect (contiguous with the stipe), remote; rachis wholly exposed, slender, flexuous, slightly excavated near the flowers, sparsely to densely lepidote of slightly spreading trichomes, green, the internodes 2.3 – 3 mm long. Floral bracts erect, remote, chartaceous, even, ecarinate, broadly obovate, rounded, incurved, 2.7 mm long, 2.7 mm wide, much exceeded by the sepals, slightly exceeding the internodes, with broad hyaline margins, abaxially sparsely lepidote at the base only, green. Flowers 4 – 4.5 mm long, contiguous with the rachis (suberect); receptacle (flower base) obconic, short (0.5 mm); sepals chartaceous, surface even, slightly asymmetrical, obovate, emarginate, incurved, 3 mm long, 2.3 mm wide, with broad hyaline margins, adaxial and abaxial ones all alike, free, glabrous, green; petals slightly fleshy, 3 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, erect, not exceeding the sepals, ovate or elliptic, rounded or obtuse, free from each other, white. Stamens included, all equal in length, 2 mm long, exceeding the pistil; filaments free, lanceolate, white; anthers dorsifixed at about one third from base, short, bi-lobed at the base, apiculate at the apex, green. Pistil exceeded by the stamens, 1.8 mm long; ovary globose, ca 1 mm long, rounded and then tapering into the style, green; style shorter than the ovary; stigma short conduplicate, erect, papillose.	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
03CF9458FFD2FFDAFF0DFDFFFE4DFB1E.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat: — Epiphyte in dry forest, only known from the type locality, at 1000 to 1500 m. elevation.	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
03CF9458FFD2FFDAFF0DFDFFFE4DFB1E.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The epithet is referring to the grass (‘ Gramen’) like spikelets (‘ Spicula’). Observations: — This new species is morphologically closely related to Racinaea pugiformis (Smith 1930: 13) Spencer & Smith (1993: 156), but the leaves are subligulate, suberect, lustrous bright green (vs. narrowly triangular, curved divergent, cinereous-green), the peduncle short and hidden in the rosette (vs. elongate, about twice the length of the leaves); inflorescence with the primary branches spreading, then curved ascending and the spikes clustered suberect closely together (vs. the primary branches spreading and then the spikes divergent to spreading, not clustered), the spikes short stipitate or subsessile (except the terminal one) (vs. long and slenderly stipitate), all flower parts smaller (see diagnose).	en	Gouda, Eric J. (2025): Two new species with tiny flowers for the genus Racinaea (Bromeliaceae). Phytotaxa 682 (3): 267-273, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.7
