Pitcairnia guzmanioides 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 guzmanioides L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Foster 2263 (holotype, GH), San Francisco to Las Mesas, Narino, Colombia, 26 Nov 1946.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant short-caulescent. Leaves few, all alike, fascicled, 7 dm long, much exceeding the inflorescence, entire, short-petiolate, minutely white-flocculose beneath, glabrous above; sheaths elliptic, 12 cm long; blades linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 35 mm wide. Scape-bracts very densely imbricate, concealing the slender scape, the lower foliaceous, the upper elliptic, acuminate, chartaceous when dry, subinflated. Inflorescence very dense, ovoid, 4.5 cm long, nearly 4 cm in diameter. Floral bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, longer than the flowers but reflexed, pale below, dark red above; flowers subsessile, more than half of them open at one time. Sepals subtraingular, broadly obtuse, 14 mm long, scarcely carinate, coriaceous, coarsely nerved, sparsely flocculose; petals 25 mm long, naked (?), white; stamens included; ovary 2/3 superior; ovules obtuse.

  • Distribution

    Saxicolous, 850-2550 m alt, southern Colombia to southern Peru.

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