Pitcairnia riparia 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 riparia Mez

  • Type

    TYPE. Weberbauer 6156 (holotype, B; photo 11376, F), Río Tabaconas Valley, Jaen, Cajamarca, Peru.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant caulescent, flowering 5 dm high, propagating by stolons; rhizome cylindric, elongate, branched, covered with the remains of old leaf-bases. Leaves glabrous; sheaths broad, brown; blades dimorphic, some persistent, reduced to dark spinulose-serrate spines, others deciduous, linear, attenuate to a brown mucro, 45 cm long, 10 mm wide, chartaceous. Scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts barely exceeding the internodes, the lower cinereous-lepidote, the upper glabrous. Inflorescence laxly racemose, 2 dm long, sparsely tomentose-lepidote. Floral bracts ovate, acuminate, entire, much exceeding the pedicels; pedicels 10-15 mm long; flowers secund. Sepals narrowly triangular, acute and mucronulate, 23 mm long, ecarinate, glabrous except the barbellate apex; petals acute, 58 mm long, naked, red, not revolute; stamens included, anthers 8 mm long; ovary almost wholly superior; ovules short-caudate.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial and epiphytic, dry banks and woods, 700-1500 m alt, northeastern Ecuador to northern Peru.

    Peru South America| Cajamarca Peru South America| Ecuador South America|