''Tillandsia chontalensis'',
synonym
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''Vriesea chontalensis'', is a
species
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of
flowering plant
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in the family
Bromeliaceae
The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, ...
, native from Central America (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama) to Colombia, north west Ecuador and west Bolivia.
[ It was first described by ]John Gilbert Baker
John Gilbert Baker (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an England, English botanist. His son was the botanist Edmund Gilbert Baker (1864–1949).
Biography
Baker was born in Guisborough in North Yorkshire, the son of John and Mary (née ...
in 1887.[
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chontalensis
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Colombia
Flora of Costa Rica
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of Honduras
Flora of Nicaragua
Flora of Panama
Plants described in 1887
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