Pitcairnia jimenezii 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 jimenezii L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Ariza-Julia in herb. Jimenéz 3713 (holotype, US; isotype, hb. Jimenez), on ground, El Choco, Puerto Plata, Republica Dominicana.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant nearly stemless, flowering 7 dm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, all alike, persistent, 5-10 dm long; sheaths ovate, castaneous; blades linear, filiform-attenuate, 18 mm wide, entire or with a few small teeth at base, soon wholly glabrous. Scape erect, slender, red, sparsely white-flocculose at the lower nodes; scape-bracts erect, the lower foliaceous and exceeding the internodes, the upper lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence few-branched or sometimes simple, to 22 cm long, very sparsely white-flocculose, soon glabrous, red; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the sterile bases of the branches; branches suberect, lax, to 14 cm long. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, the lowest exceeding the pedicels, the upper somewhat shorter; pedicels very slender, 5 mm long. Sepals lance-oblong, rounded and apiculate, 20 mm long, ecarinate; petals linear, 45 mm long, exceeding the stamens, red, bearing a truncate scale 6 mm long at the base; ovary half superior; ovules obliquely subalate.

  • Distribution

    Known from the type collection only.

    Dominican Republic South America| Puerto Plata Dominican Republic South America|