Pitcairnia stenophylla 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 stenophylla André

  • Type

    TYPE. André 1876 (holotype, K; photo, GH), Guataquicito, Rio Magdalena, Tolima, Colombia, Feb 1876.

  • Synonyms

    Hepetis stenophylla (André) Mez

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, 5-15 dm high. Leaves numerous; sheaths suborbicular, 1 cm in diameter, pale, glabrous; blades dimorphic, some reduced to short dark pectinate-serrate spines, others foliaceous, linear, filiform-attenuate, 5-10 dm long, 5-12 mm wide, deciduous, entire except for the persistent base, white-flocculose beneath becoming glabrous. Scape straight, very slender; scape-bracts erect, very narrowly triangular, all but the uppermost exceeding the internodes, flocculose becoming glabrous. Inflorescence simple, many-flowered, 20-35 cm long, sparsely white-flocculose. Floral bracts very narrowly triangular, much exceeding the pedicels; flowers subspreading; pedicels slender, 3-6 mm long. Sepals linear-triangular, long-attenuate, 22 mm long, carinate, yellow at base; petals 4 cm long, equaling the stamens, acuminate, white, appendaged; ovary more than 3/4 superior; ovules caudate.

  • Distribution

    Riverbanks, Tolima, Colombia.

    Colombia South America| Tolima Colombia South America|