The official presentation to science of a new species of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae: Hechtioideae) from the Pacific Lowlands in Mexico
Background: Hechtia is characterized by its terrestrial, succulent rosettes, dioecy, and unisexual, dimorphic flowers, mainly fragrant.The paucity and fragmentary herbarium material limit the species recognition but living material reveals diagnostic characters to delimitate them.Hypothesis: Hechtia species are circumscribed by a combination of veg