Pitcairnia tumulicola 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 tumulicola L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Foster 2071 (holotype, GH), on mounds of roots and mosses, Altaquer, 1050 m alt, Nariño, Colombia, 10 Nov 1946.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant flowering 1.3 m high. Leaves few, all alike, slightly shorter than the inflorescence, entire; sheaths small, broadly ovate, dark castaneous, densely ferruginous-lepidote, becoming glabrous; petioles elongate, red; blades lanceolate, acuminate, 7 cm wide, dark green above and glabrous, reddish beneath and densely white-lepidote. Scape erect, slender, white-flocculose; scape-bracts erect, lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the internodes, densely white-flocculose. Inflorescence simple, lax, 14 cm long, densely white-flocculose. Floral bracts lanceolate, acute, about a third as long as the pedicels; pedicels very slender, ascending, to 4 cm long. Sepals narrowly oblong, obtuse, 30 mm long, strongly nerved, carinate, crested at base; petals 45 mm long, acute, green, bearing a large scale at base; stamens included; ovary 2/3 superior; ovules caudate.

  • Distribution

    Known from the type collection only.

    Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America|