Alcantarea compacta, a New Species from the Grasslands on Rocky Soils of Minas Gerais State.

The article offers information on Alcantarea compacta. The plant is a comparatively small-sized tillandsioid genus comprising some 30 known species and is endemic to Brazil. The Alcantarea lives mostly in sun-exposed areas in rocky escarpments in the domain of the Atlantic Forest and is exclusively saxicolous and rupicolous. The plant is stemless, flowering at 60-80 centimeter (cm) high, has leaves that form a funnelform rosette, and has flowers that have golden yellow petals which are slightly fragrant.