Bromelia chrysantha Jacq.

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bromelia chrysantha Jacq.

  • Type

    Type. Schönbrunn Hortus (holotype W, lost but original description and colored plate ample typification), near Caracas, Venezuela.

  • Synonyms

    Agallostachys chrysantha (Jacq.) Beer, Bromelia aurea Britton

  • Description

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    Description - Plant 7-15 dm high. Leaves numerous in a very dense rosette, to 15 dm long; sheaths distinct, triangular-ovate, covered above with a felt of long fine pale brown scales; blades linear, attenuate, 3-4 cm wide, glabrous and lustrous above, finely pale-lepidote between the nerves beneath. Scape stout, pale brown-flocculose; scape-bracts subfoliaceous, red with thin bases. Inflorescence slenderly cylindric, dense or lax, buff-tomentose except for the petals; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but less serrate and gradually smaller. Floral bracts broadly ovate, apiculate, serrulate, 10-15 mm long, about equaling the ovary. Sepals free, broadly ovate, rounded and mucronate, 917 mm long, carinate; petals yellow, fleshy, glabrous, blades spreading at anthesis, elliptic, obtuse, 9-10 mm wide; ovary obconic, merging gradually into the pedicel. Fruit turbinate, yellow, very sweet, not verrucose.

  • Common Names

    Pinuela, Maya

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial in woods and dry thickets and cactus stands and saxicolous on riverbanks, 0-300 m alt, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad.

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