Canistrum triangulare L.B.Sm. & Reitz

  • 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

    Canistrum triangulare L.B.Sm. & Reitz

  • Type

    Type. E. Pereira 2246 (holotype, HB; photo US), Forno Grande, Castelo, Espirito Santo, Brazil, 6 Dec 1956.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant known only from separate leaves and flowering shoot, flowering over 3 dm high. Leaves 3 dm long; sheaths elliptic, 14 cm long, entire except at apex, dark purple except near base, subdensely vestite with fine brown appressed scales; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, pungent, 3 cm wide, laxly serrate with dark, spreading, 3 mm long spines, covered with appressed brown-centered, cinereous scales, becoming glabrous especially above. Scape straight, 4 mm in diameter, ferruginous-lepidote to sub-lanate; scape-bracts erect and enfolding the scape, elliptic, apiculate, serrulate, ferruginous-lepidote, the upper imbricate. Inflorescence very densely subcorymbose, 5 cm in diameter including the bracts, many-flowered; outer bracts suberect, broadly ovate, exceeding the flowers, entire, red, subdensely appressed-lepidote. Floral bracts oblong-elliptic, acute, mucronate, slightly exceeding the sepals, thin, obscurely lepidote. Sepals free, asymmetric, oblong, truncate and mucronate, 14 mm long, strongly nerved, obscurely lepidote; petals and stamens unknown; ovary cylindric; placentae elongate; epigynous tube crateriform, 4 mm high.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic, Espírito Santo, Brazil.

    Brazil South America| Espirito Santo Brazil South America|