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Take a look...the most unlike-bromeliad : a brand-new Fosterella

stephania
15 years ago

It's quite terrible hot of our summer here, one of my grass-like bromeliad has bloomed.

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I realize there are many grass-like Pitcairnia, but they,

at least have clourful Brom-flower characteristic.

While this guy shoots hundreds of quite inconspicuous little tiny flowers.

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I received this remarkable plant from my Taiwanese friend, Mr Charlot M Teng,

who got it from Tropiflora years ago, which was guessed a Hechtia.

Anyway, I had find out from FCBS that mine should be a Fosterella,

but it flower size seem doesn't match of any images, so I asked Timm Stolten

in the German Bromeliad ID Forum, and finally his friend, Jule, the botanist

who has studied and written thesis "Fosterella" informed me that

my plant should be a new species here...

"...that definitely is a Fosterella. Nice to see one in the Forum (a rare pleasure )!

I guess, it´s F. spec nov. "robertreadii",

which we are going to describe in Selbyana very soon.

Do you have any collection data? "F. robertreadii " is known from Cusco, Peru..."

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By the way, I asked Dennis Cathcart and he answered me himself...

"..Regarding the Fosterella, I don't remember this plant specifically.

He may have received it from us as a Hechtia,

but it seems unlikely as the growth habit is so different.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. Some years ago I made a trip to Bolivia

and collected several Fosterella, and one of those was later named F. spectabilis

by Harry Luther. It is possible that this plant is from that trip,

but I don't know for sure

I will forward this email to Harry Luther at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens for his opinion..."

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