Pitcairnia heterophylla (Lindl.) Beer
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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 - Flowering plant 1 dm. high or rarely to 2 dm.; leaves very numerous in a large bulb, sheaths suborbicular to ovate, deep castaneous, blades dimorphic, the outer reduced to spinose-serrate castaneous spines, the inner green, linear, filiform-acuminate, to 7 dm. long and 13 mm, wide, pale-flocculose beneath, soon glabrous, deciduous before anthesis along a straight transverse line slightly above the base, entire above that line, spinulose-serrate below it; scape usually very short and concealed by the leaves; scape-bracts ovate, acuminate or the lower with a dark slenderly spinose apex, thin, white-flocculose; inflorescence capitate or subspicate, 3- to 12-flowered; floral bracts like the upper scape-bracts, entire, shorter than the sepals; flowers erect; pedicels 3 mm. long, obconic; sepals nariowly subtriangular, acuminate, 3 cm. long, subalate-carinate, thin, flocculose; petals linear, to 55 mm. long, red or sometimes white, bearing a sacciform retuse scale well above the base; ovary about half superior; ovules long-caudate; capsule slenderly ovoid, acute, shorter than the sepals.