External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77340691-1
- Publication
- Bromelie, Die. Frankfurt am Main
- Collation
- 2024(1): 12
- Date of Publication
- Mar-Apr 2024
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Bromeliaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- H.Hromadnik & L.Hromadnik HR 23081
- Locality
- Dpto. of Cajamarca: Prov. of Contumaza, Dist. of Chilete, 900 m
- Collection Date
- 5 Mar 1997
- Type Herbaria
- holotype WU 0007834-0007837
- Latitude
- 7° 13' 3" S
- Longitude
- 78° 47' 16" W
- Distribution Of Types
- Peru (Western South America, Southern America)
Remarks
Etymology: For the hand-shaped (palmate) and finger-like (digitate) arrangement of the spikes of the lateral branches.