Pitcairnia recurvata (Scheidw.) K.Koch

  • 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 recurvata (Scheidw.) K.Koch

  • Type

    TYPE. Scheidweiler in Berlin Hortus s n (holotype B; photo 11374, F), Mexico ( Brazil ).

  • Synonyms

    Puya recurvata Scheidw., Pitcairnia polyanthoides Brongn. & Decne., Pepinia recurvata Baker ex E.Morren, Pitcairnia taenipetala Mez, Hepetis recurvata (Scheidw.) Mez, Hepetis taenipetala (Mez) Mez

  • Description

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    Description - Plant flowering 15 dm high; rhizome elongate, cylindric, covered with the remains of the leaf-sheaths. Leaves entire, dimorphic, some reduced to broadly triangular-ovate, acuminate, dark-brown sheaths, others with a deeply channeled petiole 2-5 dm long and blade, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, to 1 m long, 4 cm wide, glabrous above, white-furfuraceous below. Scape erect, stout, white-furfuraceous; scape-bracts narrowly ovate, lepidote, becoming glabrous, the lower ones filiform-caudate, the upper ones equaling or distinctly shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence racemose, many-flowered, lax, except toward the apex, 30-45 cm long. Floral bracts broadly ovate, acute, erect, distinctly shorter than the sepals, rose or green, even, coriaceous, soon glabrous; flowers suberect, over 1 dm long; pedicels stout, up to 2 cm long. Sepals oblong, rounded and apiculate, 20-25 mm long, 6 mm wide, strongly nerved; petals yellowish-white, bearing a coarsely incised scale at the base; ovary half superior; ovules caudate.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial and saxicolous, in partial shade on cliffs, 800 m alt, southern Mexico, Guatemala, and British Honduras.

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