Catopsis sessiliflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez

  • 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 sessiliflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez

  • Type

    Type. Ruiz & Pavon s n (holotype M ? n v, isotype B, GH photo), Huanuco, Peru.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia sessiliflora Ruiz & Pav., Tillandsia aloides Schltdl. & Cham., Tillandsia apicroides Schltdl. & Cham., Tussacia sessiliflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Beer, Tussacia apicroides Schltdl. & Cham., Pogospermum sessiliflorum (Ruiz & Pav.) Brongn., Catopsis apicroides Baker, Catopsis vitellina Baker, Catopsis nutans (Sw.) Griseb., Catopsis aloides (Cham. & Schltdl.) Baker, Tussacia aloides E.Morren ex André, Catopsis nutans var. erecta Wittm., Catopsis modesta F.Müll., Catopsis schindleri Mez & Wercklé, Catopsis tenuis Cufod., Catopsis sessiliflora var. dioica L.B.Sm., Bromelia sessiliflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Lodd. & Loudon

  • Description

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    Description - Plant flowering 1-45 cm high. Leaves few in a cyathiform or tubular rosette, 8-20 cm long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote throughout, not at all cretaceous; sheaths elliptic, inconspicuous, about as long as the blades but scarcely wider; blades ligulate, 10-25 mm wide, the outer ones often acute, the inner always rounded and apiculate. Scape suberect to decurved, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts remote, erect, involute, elliptic, apiculate. Inflorescences mostly branched in the staminate plants, mostly simple in the pistillate or perfect; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, much shorter than to about equaling the naked sterile bases of the axillary branches; spikes divergent, 2-11 cm long, laxly flowered. Floral bracts broadly ovate, broadly acute or obtuse, much shorter than the sepals, thin, nerved; flowers suberect to spreading, perfect or functionally unisexual and dimorphic (only in Mexico and Central America so far as shown). Sepals asymmetric, broadly elliptic, thin, nerved, the staminate 4.5 mm long, the perfect or pistillate 7-8 mm long; petals lance-ovate, barely exserted, white; stamens unequal; ovary ovoid; style very short. Capsule ovoid, distinctly short-beaked, 12 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in forest, 2-1200 m alt, southern Mexico and the West Indies to Peru and southern Brazil.

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