Billbergia amoena (Lodd.) Lindl. var. amoena

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Billbergia amoena (Lodd.) Lindl. var. amoena

  • Type

    Type. Loddiges Hortus in Lindley s n (holotype, CGE; photo GH).

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia amoena (E.Morren) Mez, Bromelia pallida Ker Gawl., Pitcairnia discolor Loisel., Tillandsia variegata Vell., Pourretia magnispatha Colla, Bromelia laevis Tiegh., Billbergia chlorocyanea de Vriese, Billbergia discolor (Loisel.) Beer, Billbergia pallida (Ker Gawl.) Beer, Billbergia variegata (Vell.) Beer, Billbergia pallescens K.Koch & Bouché, Billbergia pallens Rivière, Billbergia pallidiflora Liebm., Billbergia speciosa Thunb., Billbergia wiotiana De Jonghe, Billbergia wacketii Mez

  • Description

    Description - Leaves green. Inflorescence erect. Sepals and petals green with blue apices. Plant propagating by short erect or sometimes long and spreading rhizomes. Leaves 8-20 in a subellipsoid rosette, very variable, 3-6 dm long, from densely lepidote on both sides to nearly glabrous; sheaths large, elliptic, broad; blades ligulate, broadly rounded or acute, apiculate, slightly narrowed toward base, usually all green but sometimes tinged with red or white-spotted, 17-55 mm wide, serrulate to subentire. Scape usually erect, glabrous, green or red; scape-bracts suberect, elliptic, apiculate, usually dark red. Inflorescence usually compound but sometimes simple, lax, nearly glabrous; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, large; branches few, few-flowered. Floral bracts minute, the upper reniform, apiculate; flowers sessile. Sepals narrowly elliptic, broadly obtuse or acute or minutely apiculate, 20-30 mm long, white-flocculose at the extreme apex; petals never spiraled, linear, obtuse, 35-56 mm long, bearing 2 fimbriate scales at base, exceeding the stamens but soon recurved; ovary slenderly cylindric, 10-15 mm long, sulcate, green.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial, saxicolous, and epiphytic, from near sea level to 1050 m alt, eastern Brazil.

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