Pitcairnia nigra (Carrière) André

  • 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 nigra (Carrière) André

  • Type

    TYPE. Palais du Luxembourg in Paris Hortus (not found but well characterized by the original plate).

  • Synonyms

    Neumannia nigra E.Morren, Pitcairnia gravisiana Wittm., Hepetis nigra (Carrière) Mez

  • Description

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    Description - Plant long-caulescent. Leaves few, fasciculate, trimorphic, the outer with short subtriangular sheaths and acicular spinose-serrate blades, others with small lanceolate entire blades, and the largest with stout serrate petioles 3 dm long; blades elliptic or obovate, apiculate, cuneate, 30-37 cm long, 10-14 cm wide, soon glabrous, entire. Scape erect or ascending, short; scape-bracts densely imbricate, elliptic, acute, pungent, spinose-serrate, red. Inflorescence 1-5 dm long; axis densely ferruginous-lanate. Floral bracts elliptic, acute, arched-spreading, 65 mm long, carinate toward apex, bright red, glabrous; flowers sessile. Sepals subtriangular, acuminate, 36 mm long, thin, nerved; petals acute, 10 cm long, very dark purple, appendaged; stamens included; ovary almost wholly superior. Seeds long-caudate.

  • Distribution

    Scandent-epiphytic in forests and thickets, 300-1900 m alt southwestern Colombia and adjacent Ecuador.

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