Pitcairnia pteropoda 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 pteropoda L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    TYPE. Holway 3619 (holotype, GH), Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico, 1899.

  • Synonyms

    Pitcairnia militaris L.B.Sm.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, flowering nearly 3 dm high. Leaves many, bulbous-rosulate; sheaths suborbicular, 2-3 cm long, dark castaneous, glabrous, lustrous; blades dimorphic, some persistent, reduced to brown spinose-serrate spines, others foliaceous, 4-6 dm long, 7-15 mm wide, soon glabrous, deciduous along a transverse line, serrate below the line. Scape erect, 3_4 mm in diameter, densely white-lanate; scape-bracts imbricate, lanceolate or ovate, white-lanate at first, the lowest with long spiniform aculeate blades. Inflorescence simple, 9-16 cm long, white-lanate, secund-flowered at anthesis. Floral bracts suberect, ovate, acuminate, distinctly exceeding the pedicels; flowers suberect; pedicels alate above, 10-14 mm long. Sepals narrowly oblong, acute to obtuse, 15-20 mm long, alate-carinate; petals zygomorphic, linear, 5 cm long, red, naked; ovary 2/3 or more superior; ovules caudate.

  • Distribution

    On cliffs and in forest, 1200-1400 m alt, southern Mexico.

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