Vriesea gradata (Baker) Mez .
var. bicolor
Pereira & Penna n. var.
Typus : Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, Conceição de
Macabú, collected by Roberto Menescal
s. n. , flowered on cultivation
on the 17th July 1984 . Holotypus at the Herbarium Bradeanum HB .
Description : differs from the typical variety in its
floral bracts with the basal half red, the upper half yellow and the apex dark
and dry even at anthesis.
Published : in Bradea, Herbarium Bradeanum´s bulletin,
volume IV , nº 19 , 26th March 1985,
Pg. 137 .
Comments : species known by the type collection, and
,as it is almost unknown, we are adding drawings and photos not included in the
original description. We have no plant
in cultivation.