Pitcairnia heterophylla (Lindl.) Beer
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (1): 1-658. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Plant flowering 1 dm high or rarely to 2 dm. Leaves very numerous in a large bulb; sheaths suborbicular to ovate, deep castaneous; blades homomorphic or dimorphic, the outer reduced to spinose-serrate castaneous spines, the inner or all green, linear, filiform-attenuate, 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 narrowly subtriangular, attenuate, 3 cm long, subalate-carinate, thin, flocculose; petals linear, to 55 mm long, bearing a sacciform retuse scale well above the base; ovary about half superior; ovules long-caudate. Capsule slenderly ovoid, acute, shorter than the sepals.