Pitcairnia flexuosa L.B.Sm.

  • 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 flexuosa L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Hinton 3948 (holotype, K; isotypes, GH, US), Guayabal, Temascaltepec, Mexico State, Mexico, 20 May 1933.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, 25-45 cm high. Leaves many, forming an ellipsoid pseudobulb 5 cm long; sheaths suborbicular, castaneous, lustrous, soon glabrous; blades dimorphic, some reduced to flat brown retrorsely serrate spines, others green, deciduous along a straight transverse line, linear, filiform-attenuate, over 25 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, sparsely and finely white-tomentose-lepidote, soon glabrous. Scape erect, very slender, glabrous, its bracts ovate or lanceolate, small, the upper remote or exceeding the internodes by only their elongate filiform blades. Inflorescence simple, laxly racemose, 1-2 dm long, glabrous; axis slender, flexuous. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, from half as long as to nearly equaling the pedicels; flowers mostly ascending; pedicels slender, 10-15 mm long. Sepals very narrowly triangular, 2 cm long, the posterior ones carinate; petals zygo-morphic, ligulate, acute, naked, 4 cm long, red; stamens about equaling the petals; anthers linear, 9 mm long; ovary two-thirds superior; ovules long-caudate.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial and saxicolous, 790-1000 m alt, southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador.

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