Pitcairnia commixta L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Caulescent, flowering shoot to 2 meters high; leaves apparently homomorphic, 6-15 dm. long, sheaths broadly ovate, 7 cm- long, dark castaneous. covered with a membrane of white scales, becoming glabrous, blades subpetiolate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-4 cm. wide, at first minutely white-lepidote beneath, sparsely serrulate, the long narrow base densely serrate with straight spreading spines 4-8 mm. long; inflorescence very laxly bipinnate, minutely white-flocculose becoming glabrous; primary bracts narrowly triangular, shorter than the long sterile bases of the branches; racemes ascending, subdensely many-flowered, 25-30 cm. long; floral bracts triangular-ovate, 4 mm. long; flowers becoming secund-nutant after anthesis; pedicels slender; sepals oblong, obtuse, 14 mm. long, ecarinate; petals red, appendaged; ovary 2/3 superior; ovules caudate.