Catopsis floribunda L.B.Sm.

Authority

Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

Family

Bromeliaceae

Scientific Name

Catopsis floribunda L.B.Sm.

Type

Type. Plée s n (holotype P), Martinique.

Synonyms

Pogospermum floribundum Brongn., Catopsis nutans (Sw.) Griseb.

Description

Description - Plant flowering 4-7 dm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, suberect, stiff, 2-4 dm long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote throughout, not at all cretaceous-coated; sheaths elliptic, from half as long to as long as the blades, faintly castaneous toward the base; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, 15-30 mm wide at the base, flat or involute with extreme age. Scape erect, 2-4 mm in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, exceeding the internodes, the lower foliaceous, the upper very narrowly triangular from an ovate base. Inflorescence laxly bipinnate or tripinnate, 15-40 cm long, glabrous; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, usually much shorter than the sterile bases of the axillary branches; branches strict; spikes slenderly long-stipitate, subdensely 8-36-flowered, to 16 cm long including the stipe. Floral bracts subspreading, broadly ovate, obtuse, 3-5 mm long, distinctly shorter than the sepals, prominently nerved, green, the broad margin turning dark brown with age; flowers suberect. Sepals strongly asymmetric, broadly elliptic, 4-6 mm long, exactly like the floral bracts in texture and coloration; petals elliptic, 7 mm long, obtuse, white; stamens distinctly unequal, the second series connate with the petals for 1.5 mm; ovary stoutly ellipsoid; stigmas subsessile. Capsule slenderly ovoid, acute, 9-11 mm long.

Distribution

Epiphytic in forest, from near sea level to 1490 m alt, southern Florida, the West Indies, Trinidad and Venezuela.

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