Pitcairnia filispina L.B.Sm.

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (1): 1-658. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pitcairnia filispina L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Maguire et al 31683 (holotype, US; isotype, NY), Caño Guaviarito, Cerro Guanay, Río Manapiare, Río Ventuari, Amazonas, Venezuela, 2 Feb 1951.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, 8 dm high. Leaves many, bulbous-rosulate; sheaths suborbicular, 3-4 cm in diameter, castaneous and cinereous-lepidote toward apex, elsewhere pale-stramineous and glabrous; blades linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly contracted at base, 14-20 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, flat, rigid, glabrous above, beneath densely appressed-cinereous-lepidote, laxly serrate throughout with slender spreading spines 3.5 mm long. Scape erect, 5 mm in diameter, glabrous, red; scape-bracts strict, broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, about equaling the internodes. Inflorescence simple, lax, 27 cm long, glabrous, dark red. Floral bracts like those of the scape, erect or slightly divergent, about equaling the pedicels; pedicels arching-spreading, 2-3 cm long, slender. Sepals narrowly elliptic, acute, 28 mm long, ecarinate; petals 55 mm long, bearing a truncate or bifid scale at base; ovary 1/2 inferior; ovules winged.

  • Distribution

    Crests and savannas, 1250-1800 m alt, Amazonas, Venezuela.

    Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America|