The present work aimed and describing and illustrating a new species Orthophytum ophiuroides restricted from Lençóis in Bahia state, Brazil, besides elucidate the circumscription of Orthophytum navioides (L.B. Sm.) L.B. Sm. Orthophytum ophiuroides is closely related to O. navioides (L.B. Sm.) L.B. Sm., however, O. ophiuroides has floral bracts and sepals red (vs. green), small petals (ca. 1,5 × 0,4 vs. 2,5 × 0,7 cm), capitate trichomes in sepals and petals absent (vs. capitate trichomes in sepals and petals).
Bahia; Bromelioideae; Chapada Diamantina; Campos rupestres; Espinhaço Range
