Pitcairnia staminea Lodd.

  • 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 staminea Lodd.

  • Type

    TYPE. Description and plate in the absence of any preserved material.

  • Synonyms

    Pitcairnia canaliculata Baker, Pitcairnia longicauda Hornem. ex Mez, Pitcairnia speciosa Schult.f., Cochliopetalum stamineum (Lodd.) Beer, Orthopetalum stamineum Baker, Pitcairnia staminea var. longicauda Mez, Hepetis staminea (Lodd.) Mez, Hepetis staminea var. longicauda Mez

  • Description

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    Description - Plant flowering to 1 m high, sometimes with a short erect stem. Leaves 20-30 in a fasciculate rosette, all alike, persistent, 3-6 dm long, slightly narrowed but not petiolate, entire; sheaths subtriangular, large, pale, sparsely furfuraceous; blades linear, long-attenuate, flat, 12-18 mm wide, glabrous above, furfuraceous beneath at first. Scape slender, sparsely furfuraceous; scape-bracts narrowly triangular or lanceolate, long-attenuate, furfuraceous, the upper usually shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence laxly racemose, to 3 dm long, usually many-flowered; rhachis sparsely furfuraceous at first. Floral bracts very narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, 2-3 times shorter than the pedicels; flowers spreading to reflexed; pedicels very slender, to 3 cm long. Sepals very narrowly triangular, attenuate, 19-22 mm long, nearly 4mm wide, ecarinate or slightly carinate, green, glabrous; petals acute, about 6 cm long, equally recurved at anthesis, naked, red; stamens exceeding the petals and long-exserted at anthesis; filaments straight, red; ovary 2/3 superior. Capsule slenderly ovoid, opening nearly to base; seeds caudate.

  • Distribution

    Saxicolous, ca 300 m alt, Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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