Pitcairnia bromeliifolia L'Hér.
-
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
-
Description
Deprecated: mb_convert_encoding(): Handling HTML entities via mbstring is deprecated; use htmlspecialchars, htmlentities, or mb_encode_numericentity/mb_decode_numericentity instead in /home/emu/nybgweb/www-dev/htdocs/science-dev/wp-content/themes/nybgscience/lib/VHMonographsDetails.php on line 179
Description - Plant stemless or nearly so, flowering 4-8 dm high. Leaves of the fertile rosettes all alike or those of the sterile shoots sometimes with spiniform blades, 1-16 dm long; sheaths ovate or triangular, small, dark-castaneous, glabrous; blades linear to linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 8-32 mm wide, channeled, closely spinose-serrate toward the base, sparsely elsewhere, glabrous above, glabrous or covered with a fine white more or less persistent membrane of coalesced scales beneath. Scape erect, more or less floccose; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes, the lower foliaceous, the upper linear-lanceolate, attenuate, entire. Inflorescence simple or few-branched; axes white-flocculose; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, many times shorter than the axillary branches; racemes laxly flowered, 2-4 dm long. Floral bracts narrowly triangular, filiform-attenuate, white-flocculose, the lower ones equaling or exceeding the pedicels, the upper much shorter; flowers spreading; pedicels slender, (7-)9-34(-36) mm long. Sepals narrowly triangular, attenuate, 15-25 mm long, ecarinate; petals ligulate, acute, 37-52 mm long, red, bearing at the base a truncate scale 7 mm long; stamens included; ovary half superior; ovules bicaudate.