Pitcairnia sceptrigera Mez

  • 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 sceptrigera Mez

  • Type

    TYPE. Eggers 15061 (holotype, B; photo 11379, F; isotype, F), Hacienda El Recreo, Manabi, Ecuador, 8 Aug 1893.

  • Synonyms

    Pitcairnia campii L.B.Sm.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant flowering 3 m high. Leaf-sheaths 2 dm long, ample, very densely appressed-brown-lanose, dark castaneous at base; blades dimorphic, some strongly reduced, linear, 2 mm wide, laxly serrate with dark curved spines, others up to 3 m long with sheaths and broadly channeled serrate petiole, linear, long-attenuate, 5 cm wide, entire except at base. Scape erect, 2 cm in diameter at base, pale-flocculose; scape-bracts erect, very densely imbricate, elliptic, pale-flocculose, the lowest long-acuminate and laxly serrate toward apex with dark spines, the upper acute, entire. Inflorescence simple, slenderly cylindric, many-flowered, 3-8 dm long, 2-3 cm in diameter, pale-flocculose except for the petals. Floral bracts erect or slightly divergent toward apex, like the upper scape-bracts, to 7 cm long, much exceeding the sepals, bladeless, pale green, subcoriaceous, entire; flowers subsessile. Sepals narrowly oblong, broadly acute and apiculate, 28 mm long, ecarinate; petals naked, 7-9 cm long, glabrous, bright yellow; stamens included; ovary 5/6 superior; ovules long-caudate.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial and saxicolous, borders of woods and cliffs, 375-1200 m alt, western Ecuador.

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