Dyckia microcalyx Baker
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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 0.4-2 m high. Leaves 2-15 dm long, sheaths inconspicuous, scarcely wider than the blades; blades narrowly triangular, 15-30 mm wide, pale-lepidote especially beneath but often becoming glabrous, typically subdensely serrate with spines 6 mm long but varying gradually to entire. Scape erect, slender, glabrous at maturity; scape-bracts ovate with long acuminate pungent blades, at least the highest shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence few-branched or rarely simple, to 8 dm long, many-flowered, soon glabrous; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, small, usually shorter than the sterile bases of the branches; branches spreading, densely flowered, 6-26 cm long. Floral bracts broadly ovate or suborbicular, apiculate, 2 mm long, much exceeded by the sepals; flowers subsessile, 6-13 mm long. Sepals suborbicular, 3-6 mm long; petals obovate, suberect, ecarinate, orange; stamens exserted or about equaling the petals, the filaments free above the short common tube with the petals; style nearly the same length as the ovary.