Pitcairnia micotrinensis Read

  • 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 micotrinensis Read

  • Type

    TYPE. Read & Ernst 2018 (holotype, US), ridge above Fresh Water Lake, on a spur which extends southwest from the pass over which the road from the lake goes to Rosalie, Dominica, Lesser Antilles, 16 May 1968.

  • Synonyms

    Pitcairnia spicata var. sulphurea Hodge

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless or with stems to 20 cm long, flowering to 15 dm high. Leaves dimorphic with those of the sterile offshoots reduced to dark serrate spines 4-10 cm long, the larger ones to 15 dm long; sheaths ovate to subtriangular, densely lepidote beneath except for the extreme base, serrate; blades linear, attenuate, slightly contracted toward base, 28-37 mm wide, showing a median channel especially when dry, entire, glabrous except along the margins and beneath at base and apex. Scape stout, straight, arachnoid-lepidote; scape-bracts from subfoliaceous and densely imbricate to ovate and about equaling the internodes, entire. Inflorescence simple, densely racemose, 18-27 cm long, arachnoid-lepidote when young. Floral bracts lanceolate to lance-ovate, 7-14 mm wide, the lowest equaling or exceeding the midpoint of the sepals; flowers reflexed after anthesis; pedicels slender, 5-10 mm long. Sepals oblong, rounded and apiculate, 19-29 mm long, ecarinate; petals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 45-55 mm long, exceeding the stamens, 13 mm wide, bearing a single rounded entire scale at base, yellow or white; ovary two-thirds superior; ovules caudate.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial, open summits, 1260-1400 m alt, Dominica.

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