Pitcairnia puyoides 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 puyoides L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Klug 3547 (holotype, GH; isotypes, F, US), epiphytic in forest, Zepelacio near Moyobamba, 1200-1600 m alt, San Martin, Peru, Jan 1934.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stout and like a Puya in habit, probably flowering well over 1 m high. Leaves 9 dm long; sheath broadly ovate, 7 cm long, dark castaneous, lustrous, glabrous above, sordid-flocculose beneath; blade linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 33 mm wide, slightly contracted at base but not petiolate, densely serrate with straight spines 3 mm long, soon glabrous. Scape erect, 15 mm in diameter, subglabrous; scape-bracts suberect, densely imbricate, foliaceous. Inflorescence laxly compound, flocculose, soon glabrous; racemes 15-21 cm long, laxly flowered; rhachis stout. Floral bracts ovate, acuminate, about half as long as the pedicels; flowers suberect or divergent; pedicels slender, 15-20 mm long. Sepals asymmetrical, ovate, acute, 24 mm long, 8 mm wide, thick, coriaceous; petals narrow, 6 cm long, naked, cream-colored; stamens included; ovary 2/3 superior; ovules caudate.

  • Distribution

    Known from the type collection only.

    Peru South America| San Martín Peru South America|