Pitcairnia Aequatorialis
''Pitcairnia aequatorialis'' is a species of plant in the family Bromeliaceae. It is Endemism, endemic to Ecuador, where it is known from only three subpopulations in Chimborazo Province. It grows in forested habitat. It is sometimes found in disturbed habitat. None of its populations are in protected territory. References

Pitcairnia, aequatorialis Endemic flora of Ecuador Endangered plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Plants described in 1936 {{Pitcairnia-stub ...
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Lyman Bradford Smith
Lyman Bradford Smith (September 11, 1904 – May 4, 1997) was an American botanist. Smith was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He studied botany during the 1920s at Harvard University and received his PhD from Harvard in 1930. Between 1928 and 1929, he worked for the first time in Brazil. Most of his life's work came to involve the taxonomy of the flowering plants of South America, in particular the bromeliads (''Bromeliaceae''). Smith worked on the Bromeliaceae for the North American Flora published by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, volume 19, no. 2 (1938). Smith was a world authority on '' Begoniaceae'' and also worked with ''Velloziaceae Velloziaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Pandanales. Relationships and evolution By contrast to oth ...'' and numerous other plant families. He was a curator in the Smithsonia ...
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