taxonID	type	description	language	source
1B7287E1FFDD270BFF3CFAE912F6DEFF.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — This new species can be distinguished from its morphologically closest relative, C. ruthae, by its caulescent habit, 20 – 30 cm long (vs. stemless), shorter leaf blades (22 – 32 cm vs. to ca. 65 cm long), with margins equally densely spinulose (vs. entire except for its serrate distal end), shorter sepals (ca. 12 mm vs. 17 – 20 mm), which are shorter connate at the base (for 5 – 6 mm vs. 8 – 12 mm), and narrower sepal lobes (ca. 2.5 mm vs. 3 – 4 mm wide).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDD270BFF3CFAE912F6DEFF.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — BRAZIL. Bahia: Igrapíuna, BA 001, Mata de Vila 5, Trilha Principal, Reserva Ecológica Michelin, 171 m elevation, 13 º 49 ’ 15 ” S, 39 º 12 ’ 14 ” W, 29 December 2018, flowered in cult. 27 February 2021, E. H. Souza 180 (holotype HURB!, isotype RB!).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDD270BFF3CFAE912F6DEFF.taxon	description	Description: — Plants terrestrial, caulescent, 20 – 30 cm high when in bloom, propagating by erect axillary shoots. Leaves ca. 20 in number, spreading at anthesis, subdensely arranged; sheath subtrapeziform, ca. 3.5 × 2.5 cm, green to bronze colored, densely and coarsely white lepidote abaxially, adaxially glabrous; blade narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate-caudate, distinctly narrowed toward the base but not pseudopetiolate, 22 – 32 × 2.4 – 3.3 cm, thinly coriaceous, slightly canaliculate, dull green to reddish-bronze colored mainly toward the apex, with a narrow thicker median channel, abaxially densely and coarsely white lepidote of trichomes obscuring the leaf color, adaxially inconspicuously and sparsely white lepidote to glabrous, margins slightly undulate, densely spinulose; spines triangular, antrorsely uncinate, greenish, ca. 0.3 mm long, 1 – 2 mm apart. Inflorescence sessile, subcorymbose, ca. 3 cm long, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter at the apex, once branched at the base and bearing an inconspicuous simple central portion with densely arranged staminate flowers surrounded by ca. 5 flower fascicles; primary bracts resembling the leaves; flower fascicles ca. 2 flowered, complanate, ca. 20 × 11 mm; floral bracts in the fascicles narrowly subtriangular-lanceolate, acuminate, 16 – 17 × 5 – 6 mm, membranaceous, hyaline toward the base and margins, pale brown toward the apex, sparsely pale brown lepidote mainly toward the apex, entire or nearly so, about equalling 2 / 3 of sepal length, carinate. Flowers sessile, odorless, the perfect ones ca. 33 mm long, the staminate ones slightly shorter; sepals ca. 12 mm long, unequally connate for 5 – 6 mm, inconspicuously and sparsely brown lepidote mainly toward the apex, whitish-hyaline except for the pale brown apex, lobes ovate, acute, 5 – 6 × 2.5 mm, symmetrical, obtusely if at all carinate, margins entire to inconspicuously crenulate; petals narrowly spathulate, apex obtuse-emarginate, white, exceeding the stamens but spreading-recurved at anthesis and exposing them; those of the perfect flowers 26 – 27 × 3.5 – 4 mm, connate at the base for ca. 8 mm, bearing 2 conspicuous callosities at the base of the free lobes; filaments ca. 20 mm long, equally adnate to the petal-tube and free above it; anthers ca. 3.5 mm long before dehiscence and 2 mm long when dry, dorsifixed slightly below the middle, base bilobed, apex apiculate; ovary narrowly trigonous obovoid, ca. 6.5 × 4.5 mm, white, glabrous; stigma conduplicate-patent, lobes ca. 3 mm long, ca. 0.8 mm wide, white, margins scalloped, without papillae; epigynous tube lacking; placentation apical; ovules few, obtuse. Fruits not seen.	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDD270BFF3CFAE912F6DEFF.taxon	distribution	Distribution, habitat and conservation: — Cryptanthus flesherii grows on the shaded forest floor in a Atlantic Forest fragment known as Mata de Vila 5, Reserva Ecológica Michelin, in the municipalites of Igrapinua and Ituberá, state of Bahia, Brazil (Fig. 1 and 2 A). The cities are located in the southern macroregion of Bahia that has a humid tropical climate and significant fragments of lowland evergreen Atlantic forest, as well as mangroves along the Serinhaém River. Its population is composed of medium-sized groups of individuals more or less sparsely distributed in the area with a population estimated of ca. 200 individuals always close to rocky outcrops. This new species is only known from its type locality which is situated inside a private protected area (Reverva Ecológica Michelin) owned and maintained by the Michelin company. The GeoCAT (Bachmann et al. 2011) estimated the extent of the occurrence of C. flesherii as about 4.633 km 2, while its area of occupancy is 20.000 Km ² (AOO), so classifying the species as critically endangered (CR) according to the criteria adopted by IUCN (2020).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDD270BFF3CFAE912F6DEFF.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The specific epithet honors the ecologist Kevin Michael Flesher, Director of the Reserva Ecológica Michelin and responsible for the conservation and research management of the area where this new species was discovered. Observations: — Cryptanthus flesherii is morphologically the closest relative of C. ruthae Philcox (1992: 268), a species known from Restinga habitats in the same region where this new species was found. However, C. flesherii can be clearly distinguished from it by its caulescent habit, 20 – 25 cm long (vs. stemless), the spreading leaves at anthesis (vs. suberect), shorter leaf blades (22 – 32 cm vs. to ca. 65 cm long), with margins densely spinulose throughout (vs. entire except for its serrate distal end), shorter sepals (ca. 12 mm vs. 17 – 20 mm), which are shorter connate at the base (for 5 – 6 mm vs. 8 – 12 mm), and narrower sepal lobes (ca. 2.5 mm vs. 3 – 4 mm wide). The distinctly caulescent habit of C. flesherii recalls some morphological resemblance with C. reptans Leme & Siqueira (2006: 287), which is endemic to the Atlantic Forest of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, north of São Francisco river. Differences of this new species are: leaf blades with margins slightly undulate (vs. strongly undulate) and bearing smaller spines (ca. 0.3 mm vs. 0.5 – 1 mm long), floral bracts equaling 2 / 3 of sepals length (vs. equaling 1 / 2 of sepals length), sepals shorter connate at the base (for 5 – 6 mm vs. 8 – 9 mm) with acute lobes (vs. acuminate), sparsely lepidote (vs. glabrous), and petals obtuse-emarginate (vs. acute to subacute). Despite imperfectly known due to the lack of data of some of its floral parts (e. g., petals), C. ubairensis Ramírez (1998: 221), originally collected in the county of Ubaíra, Bahia, is another putative relative. However, C. flesherii differs from it by its shorter stem (20 – 25 cm long vs. to ca. 123 cm long), leaf blades adaxially inconspicuously and sparsely white lepidote to glabrous (vs. subdensely lepidote adaxially), inflorescence with a higher number of flower fascicles (ca. 5 vs. 1 – 3 in number), floral bracts entire or nearly so (vs. serrate), and sepals entire or inconspicuously crenulate (vs. minutely serrate).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDA2709FF3CFD671024DDC6.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — This new species is morphologically closely related to C. reisii, but differs from it by its caulescent habit, plant ca. 20 cm long (vs. 7 cm) with more leaves (ca. 20 vs. ca. 8), shorter leaf blades (25 – 28 cm vs. 30 – 55 cm long), sepals with narrowly lanceolate and acuminate lobes (vs. suborbicular, obtuse to slightly cucullate), which are longer and more narrow (7 – 9 × 2.5 – 3 mm vs. ca. 5 × 4 mm), and petals white (vs. white with greenish apex) with acute apex (vs. emarginate).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDA2709FF3CFD671024DDC6.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — BRAZIL. Bahia: Pindobaçu, Lutanda, Serra da Fumaça, parte superior do Poço das Estrelas, próximo ao acampamento, 870 m elevation, 10 º 39 ’ 17.8 ” S, 40 º 22 ’ 20.6 ” W, 4 October 2019, E. H. Souza 212, M. M. Leodegário, J. G. S. Santos & A. Ferreira (holotype HURB!, isotype RB!).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDA2709FF3CFD671024DDC6.taxon	description	Description: — Plants terrestrial, caulescent, ca. 20 cm high when in bloom, propagating by erect axillary shoots. Leaves ca. 20 in number before anthesis, ca. 15 in number at anthesis, subspreading at anthesis, subdensely arranged; sheath subtrapeziform, greenish-white to bronze colored at distal end, densely lepidote abaxially near distal end, glabrous toward the base, adaxially glabrous; blade narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate, slightly narrowed toward the base but not pseudopetiolate, 25 – 28 × 2.5 – 3 cm, coriaceous, slightly canaliculate, dull green to reddish-bronze colored mainly toward the base, thicker median channel absent, abaxially densely and coarsely white lepidote of trichomes obscuring the leaf color, adaxially inconspicuously and sparsely white lepidote toward the base to glabrous, margins slightly undulate, densely spinulose; spines triangular, antrorsely uncinate, greenish to reddish, 0.7 – 1.5 mm long, 2 – 6 mm apart. Inflorescence sessile, elongate, corymbose, ca. 7 cm long, ca. 3 cm in diameter at the apex, once branched at the base and bearing an conspicuous simple central portion forming a dense head of 35 – 50 staminate flowers surrounded by ca. 5 flower fascicles; primary bracts resembling the leaves; flower fascicles 3 – 4 flowered, complanate, ca. 37 × 18 mm; floral bracts in the fascicles narrowly subtriangular-lanceolate, acuminate, 24 – 26 × 5 – 10 mm, membranaceous, hyaline toward the margins, sparsely pale brown lepidote mainly toward the apex, and with sparse fimbriate trichomes along the apical margins, entire or nearly so, about equalling 1 / 3 of the sepal length, carinate. Flowers sessile, odorless, the the perfect ones ca. 54 mm long (with the petals extended), the staminate ones ca. 35 mm long (with the petals extended); sepals 18 – 19 mm long, unequally connate for 10 – 11 mm, inconspicuously and sparsely white lepidote mainly toward the apex, whitish-hyaline to greenish; the lobes narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 7 – 9 × 2.5 – 3 mm, symmetrical, obtusely carinate, margins entire to inconspicuously crenulate with sparsely fimbriate trichomes; petals narrowly lingulate, apex acute, white, exceeding the stamens but spreading-recurved at anthesis and exposing them; those of the perfect flowers ca. 35 × 6 mm, connate at the base for ca. 6 mm, bearing 2 conspicuous longitudinal callosities at the base of the free lobes; filaments ca. 25 mm long, the antesepalous ones for ca. 6 mm adnate to the petal-tube and free above it, the antepetalous adnate to the petals for ca. 9 mm; anthers ca. 3.5 mm long, dorsifixed slightly below the middle, base bilobed, apex narrowly obtuse; ovary narrowly trigonous obovoid, ca. 15 × 6 mm, white, glabrous; stigma conduplicate-patent, lobes ca. 5 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, white, margins scalloped, without papillae, epigynous tube lacking, placentation apical; ovules few, obtuse. Fruits not seen.	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDA2709FF3CFD671024DDC6.taxon	distribution	Distribution, habitat and conservation: — Cryptanthus lutandensis was observed growing on the shaded forest floor of an Atlantic Forest fragment located in Serra da Fumaça, county of Pindobaçu, in Bahia state (Fig. 1 and 2 B). Its population is composed of small groups of individuals sparsely distributed in the area with a population estimated of ca. 150 individuals at the top of the Fumaça River waterfall. Due to its natural beauty, the region receives visitors throughout the year on a disorganized ecotourism basis. The uncontrolled access to the area, combined with the absence of any extra conservation measure, constitutes a serious threat to C. lutandensis. The GeoCAT (Bachmann et al. 2011) estimated the extent of the occurrence of this new species as about 0.167 km 2, while its area of occupancy is about 12.000 Km ² (AOO), which indicate that C. lutandensis is a critically endangered species (CR) according to the criteria adopted by IUCN (2020).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFDA2709FF3CFD671024DDC6.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The name chosen for this new species refers to the locality of Lutanda, in Serra da Fumaça, the upper part of Poço das Estrelas, in Pindobaçu county, Bahia, where this new species was collected. Additional specimen examined (paratype): — BRAZIL. Bahia: Pindobaçu, Serra da Fumaça, 750 m elevation, 10 º 41 ’ 44 ” S, 40 º 22 ’ 48 ” W, 8 April 2014, A. P. Fontana 8914 (MBML!). Observations: — Cryptanthus lutandensis is the morphologically closest relative of C. reisii Leme (2002 a: 87), a species known from Atlantic Forest fragments in the lower elevated region of Itapetinga, Bahia. Nevertheless, C. lutandendis can be easily distinguished from C. reisii by its distinctly caulescent habit, ca. 20 cm high (vs. ca. 7 cm high) with a larger number of leaves (ca. 15 vs. ca. 8), shorter leaf blades, sepals with narrowly lanceolate and acuminate lobes (vs. suborbicular, obtuse to slightly cucullate), which are longer and narrower, and petals completely white without greenish apex with acute apex, not emarginate.	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD82707FF3CFE0610D8DDFC.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — This new species can be distinguished from the closest relative, C. walkerianus, by the longer leaves (60 – 95 cm vs. 35 – 75 cm), with longer pseudopetioles (32 – 57 cm vs. 12 – 33 cm), and narrower blades (3.5 – 4.2 cm vs. 5.5 – 9 cm), inflorescence with an inconspicuous central head of staminate flowers (vs. conspicuous central head of staminate flowers), sepals densely and remotely denticulate (vs. entire), and petals longer (ca. 40 mm vs. 27 – 28 mm long) and acute (vs. obtuse).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD82707FF3CFE0610D8DDFC.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — BRAZIL. Bahia: Belmonte, BA- 275, near to Rio Preto, entrance to the right toward Rio do BU, Comunidade do Canta Galo, 75 m elevation, 12 October 2019, E. Leme 9835, J. E. Santos & E. H. Souza (holotype RB!, isotype HURB!).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD82707FF3CFE0610D8DDFC.taxon	description	Description: — Plants terrestrial, stemless, propagating by short basal shoots. Leaves ca. 8 in number, 60 – 95 cm long, suberect at anthesis, laxly arranged; sheath trapeziform, 5 × 2.5 – 3 cm, green to wine colored mainly abaxially, inconspicuously and sparsely white lepidote, distinctly rugose, inconspicuously and densely spinulose near distal end; blade long petiolate; petiole 32 – 57 × 0.5 – 0.8 cm, distinctly contrasting with the blades, strongly “ U ” - channeled, thick coriaceous, subdensely white lepidote abaxially, sparsely white lepidote to glabrous adaxially, wine colored near the base and green toward distal end, margins entire or irregularly and minutely spinulose mainly near the base and distal end; blade narrowly lanceolate, apex long caudate, 22 – 39 × 3.5 – 4.2 cm, thin coriaceous, thicker channel absent, flat toward the apex, dull green colored, sulcate due to sparsely pronounced longitudinal nerves, abaxially densely and coarsely white lepidote, adaxially inconspicuously and sparsely white lepidote but appearing glabrous, margins straight or inconspicuously if at all undulate, subentire or irregularly and minutely spinulose at the base and near the apex to densely and inconspicuously spinulose throughout; spines triangular, straight to slightly antrorsely uncinate, ca. 0.3 mm long, 1.5 – 10 mm apart. Inflorescence ca. 5 cm long, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter, sessile, slightly elongate, once branched at the base and bearing an inconspicuous, simple, upper-central head of ca. 10 densely arranged flowers, surrounded by ca. 3 fascicles; primary bracts resembling the leaves; fascicles inconspicuous, ca. 2 flowered, complanate; floral bracts narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, 15 – 17 × 5 – 7 mm, straight, membranous, white-hyaline toward the base, reddish near the apex, sparsely brown lepidote toward the apex, minutely spinulose near the apex to entire, with fimbriate trichomes along the apical margins, exceeding the ovary to equaling 1 / 4 of the sepal length, those in the fascicles distinctly carinate, those in the upper-central head of flowers ecarinate. Flowers sessile, odorless, the perfect ones ca. 53 mm long (with the petals extended), the staminate ones ca. 48 mm long (with the petals extended); sepals 19 – 20 mm long, connate for 11 – 12 mm, whitish, sparsely and coarsely brown lepidote toward the apex; the lobes narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, long acuminate, 8 × 3 – 3.5 mm, symmetrical, obtusely carinate, margins densely and remotely denticulate, with inconspicuously fimbriate trichomes; petals lingulate, apex acute, white, exceeding the stamens but recurved at anthesis and exposing them; those of the perfect flowers ca. 40 × 5 mm, connate at the base for ca. 9 mm, bearing 2 conspicuous callosities at the base of the free lobes; filaments ca. 31 mm long, the antesepalous ones for ca. 9 mm adnate to the petal-tube, the antepetalous ones adnate to the petals for ca. 15 mm; anthers 2 – 3 mm long, dorsifixed at 1 / 3 of its length above the base, base obtusely bilobed, apex obtuse; ovary subtrigonous obovoid, 12 – 13 × 5 mm, white, glabrous or nearly so; stigma white, conduplicate-patent, lobes suberect, ca. 3 mm long, margins shortly crenulate; epigynous tube lacking; placentation apical; ovules few, obtuse. Fruits unknown.	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD82707FF3CFE0610D8DDFC.taxon	distribution	Distribution, habitat and conservation: — Cryptanthus santosii was found growing as a terrestrial species on the shaded forest floor in a small Restinga area near the highway, in the county of Belmonte, Bahia (Fig. 1 and 2 C). The population at the type locality is constituted by isolated and scattered individuals or sometimes by small groups of plants in a sandy terrain. The region where this new species was found shelters only small forest fragments that remained after a severe deforestation process for pasture faming activities, agriculture of monocultures and also for expansion of local communities. The GeoCAT (Bachmann et al. 2011) estimated the extent of the occurrence of C. santosii as about 1.850 km 2, while its area of occupancy is 12.000 Km ² (AOO), so classifying the species as critically endangered (CR) according to the criteria adopted by IUCN (2020).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD82707FF3CFE0610D8DDFC.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The name chosen for this new species honors its collector, João Eduardo dos Santos, responsible for the preservation of an important fragment of Atlantic Forest in the county of Itapebi, Bahia state, and responsible for several botanical descoveries. Observations: — Cryptanthus santosii is morphologically closely related to C. walkerianus Leme & L. Kollmann (Leme et al. 2014: 83), a typical inhabitant of the low elevated Atlantic Forest of the state of Bahia. However, this new species differs from it by its longer leaves, with longer petioles and narrower blades. On the other hand, the inflorescence has an inconspicuous central head of staminate flowers, sepals are longer with broader lobes which are densely and remotely denticulate, not entire. Finally, petals are longer and acute, not obtuse, forming a longer basal tube. The long petiolate leaves of C. santosii make it also morphologically close to C. teretifolius Leme (2002 b: 15), which grows in the coastal sector of Espírito Santo state, near the city of Vitória. The most important differences to this species are the leaf blades with longer petioles (32 – 57 cm vs. 8 – 22 cm), which are strongly “ U ” - channeled (vs. involute-subulate and terete in cross section), one of its striking differences, as well as the longer sepals (19 – 20 mm vs. ca. 16 mm), and petals with acute apex (vs. rounded to slightly cucullate).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD62705FF3CFE661097DF6F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — This new species can be distinguished from its morphologically closest relative Cryptanthus bibarrensis, by its distinct longer stem (to 60 cm vs. ca. 30 cm long), leaves arcuate to strongly recurved (vs. spreading to slightly recurved), sepal lobes oblongovate, ca. 3.5 mm wide (vs. broadly elliptic to suborbicular, ca. 5 mm wide), and petals higher connate at the base for ca. 10 mm (vs. 4 – 5 mm).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD62705FF3CFE661097DF6F.taxon	materials_examined	Type: — BRAZIL. Bahia: Brejões, Distrito de Serrana, Fazenda Camaçari, Mata Camaçari, 875 m elevation, 13 º 07 ’ 14.5 ” S, 39 º 53 ’ 04.3 ” W, 18 June 2017, E. H. Souza 327 & M. S. O. Santos (holotype HURB!, isotypes RB!, SEL!).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD62705FF3CFE661097DF6F.taxon	description	Description: — Plants terrestrial, long caulescent, 25 – 60 cm high when in bloom, stem prostrate except for the erect or suberect distal portion, usually climbing up in the lower bushes by means of their recurved leaves, propagating by elongate axillary shoots. Leaves 15 – 22 in number, arcuate to strongly recurved at anthesis, subdensely to laxly arranged along the stem; sheath subtrapeziform, ca. 3.5 × 2.5 cm, greenish to bronze colored at distal end, densely lepidote and corrugate abaxially, glabrescent adaxially; blade narrowly sublinear lanceolate, apex acuminate, slenderly caudate, slightly narrowed toward the base but not pseudopetiolate, 27 – 35 × 1.7 – 2 cm, coriaceous, distinctly canaliculate, greenish to dull reddish-bronze colored, thicker median channel absent, abaxially densely and coarsely white lepidote of trichomes obscuring the leaf color, adaxially glabrous, margins undulate, densely spinulose; spines triangular, antrorsely uncinate, greenish to reddish, ca. 0.5 mm long, 2 – 4 mm apart. Inflorescence sessile, corymbose, ca. 3.5 cm long, ca. 2 cm in diameter at the apex, once branched at the base and bearing an inconspicuous simple central portion of staminate flowers surrounded by ca. 5 flower fascicles; primary bracts resembling the leaves; flower fascicles with ca. 2 flowers, complanate, ca. 21 × 10 mm (excluding the petals); floral bracts in the fascicles narrowly subtriangularlanceolate, obtuse, 14 – 16 × 4 – 5 mm, membranaceous, hyaline toward the margins, brown near the apex, sparsely lepidote mainly toward the apex with fimbriate trichomes including the margins, entire or remotely denticulate at the apex, about equalling 1 / 3 of sepal length, carinate. Flowers sessile, the perfect ones ca. 38 mm long (with the petals extended), the staminate ones ca. 34 mm long (with the petals extended); sepals 12 – 14 mm long, equally connate for ca. 6 mm, inconspicuously and sparsely lepidote mainly toward the apex, brown; the lobes oblong-ovate, acute, 5 – 7 × 3.5 mm, symmetrical, obtusely carinate, margins entire to inconspicuously crenulate; petals narrowly spathulate, apex rounded, white, exceeding the stamens but spreading-recurved at anthesis and exposing them; those of the perfect flowers 31 – 32 × 6 – 6.5 mm, connate at the base for ca. 10 mm, bearing 2 conspicuous longitudinal callosities at the base of the free lobes; filaments ca. 22 mm long, the antesepalous ones adnate for ca. 10 mm to the petal-tube and free above it, the antepetalous adnate to the petals for ca. 12 mm; anthers ca. 3 mm long, dorsifixed slightly below the middle, base bilobed, apex narrowly obtuse; ovary narrowly obovoid, trigonous, ca. 9 × 5 mm, white, glabrous; stigma conduplicate-patent, lobes ca. 3 mm long, ca. 1.5 mm wide, white, margins scalloped, without papillae; epigynous tube lacking; placentation apical; ovules few, obtuse. Fruits not seen.	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD62705FF3CFE661097DF6F.taxon	distribution	Distribution, habitat and conservation: — As a terrestrial species, C. solidadeanus was found growing on the shaded forest floor in a semi-deciduous forest fragment between 850 and 900 meter elevation, known as Mata Camaçari, in the district of Serrana, county of Brejões, Bahia state (Fig. 1 and 2 D). Its population is composed of medium-sized groups of individuals more or less sparsely distributed in the area with a population estimated of ca. 500 individuals. The original vegetation of the region was almost completely destroyed by agricultural activity, especially coffee plantation and very few forest fragments remained. Currently, the small forest fragment where this species was discovered is seriously threatened by logging, clearing for agropastoral activities, agriculture of monocultures. The GeoCAT (Bachmann et al. 2011) estimated the extent of the occurrence of C. solidadeanus as about 0.179 km 2, while its area of occupancy is about 12.000 Km ² (AOO), so indicating this species as critically endangered (CR), according to the criteria adopted by IUCN (2020).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
1B7287E1FFD62705FF3CFE661097DF6F.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The specific epithet honors the local conservationist Maria da Solidade Oliveira da Silva, known as Soly, who called our attention to the high biodiversity in the forest fragments of the Distrito de Serrana, now under serious threat by the expansion of agricultural and cattle breeding activities. Additional specimen examined (paratypes): — BRAZIL. Bahia: Brejões, Distrito de Serrana, 13 ° 06 ’ 15.8 ” S, 39 ° 47 ’ 44.9 ” W, 7 December 2017, L. Y. S. Aona, E. Hilo, S. Oliveira & R. Pontes 4618 (holotype HURB!); 845 m elevation, 13 ° 07 ’ 14.9 ” S, 39 ° 53 ’ 02.2 ” W, 20 February 2019, E. Leme 9589, E. H. de Souza, F. Vidigal & M. S. O. da Silva (isotype RB!). Observations: — Cryptanthus solidadeanus is morphologically closely related to C. bibarrensis Leme (2002 a: 86), a species known from the county of Itapetinga, state of Bahia, about 240 km distant, in straight line, to the type locality of the new species. However, this new species differs from it by its distinct longer stem (to 60 cm vs. ca. 30 cm long) and prostrate habit, with the erect or suberect distal portion usually climbing up in the lower bushes by means of their arcuate to strongly recurved leaves (vs. not at all prostrate, with spreading to slightly recurved leaves), leaf blades dull green colored adaxially (vs. lustrous green), flowers shorter (ca. 38 mm vs. ca. 45 mm long), sepal lobes oblongovate and narrower (ca. 3.5 mm wide vs. broadly elliptic to suborbicular, ca. 5 mm wide), and petals highly connate at the base for ca. 10 mm (vs. short connate for 4 – 5 mm). On the other hand, C. solidadeanus, which occurs about 100 km from the coast, can be compared to C. sergipensis Ramírez (1998: 219), found growing in coastal sandy soils in Restinga habitats, not more than 15 km from the ocean, in the state of Sergipe and at neighboring areas in the state of Bahia. In spite of some morphological similarities, this new species clearly differs from it by its distinct longer stem (to 60 cm vs. 12 – 35 cm long) and prostrate habit, with the erect or suberect distal portion usually climbing up in the lower bushes by means of their arcuate to strongly recurved leaves (vs. not at all prostrate, with spreading to slightly recurved leaves), flowers longer (ca. 38 mm vs. 30 – 32 mm long), sepal longer (12 – 14 mm vs. 9 – 11 mm) with longer lobes (5 – 7 mm vs. 3 – 4 mm), and petals longer (ca. 32 mm vs. 19 – 22 mm) and connate at the base for ca. 10 mm (vs. 3 – 4 mm).	en	Souza, Everton Hilo De, Leme, Elton M. C. (2021): New Cryptanthus species (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae) from the State of Bahia, Brazil. Phytotaxa 523 (2): 179-191, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.523.2.5
