Deuterocohnia longipetala (Baker) 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

    Deuterocohnia longipetala (Baker) Mez

  • Type

    TYPE. Humboldt & Bonpland 3595 (holotype, B; photo 11389, F), Río Marañon, between Río Chinchipe and Jaen, Cajamarca, Peru, Aug 1802. Erroneously cited as "Brazil" by Mez.

  • Synonyms

    Dyckia longipetala Baker, Puya flava Baker ex Willd., Dyckia decomposita Baker ex, Deuterocohnia chrysantha Mez, Deuterocohnia longipetala (Baker) Mez, Dyckia longipetala Baker

  • Description

    Description - Plant flowering 8-10 dm high; growing in circles. Leaves 3-4 dm long; sheaths reniform, 7 cm wide, glabrous, castaneous beneath; blades 4 cm wide, attenuate to a slender caudate entire apex, covered above with white transparent scales, beneath with cinereous opaque ones, densely serrate with spines 3-4 mm long. Scape 5-6 mm in diameter, straight, glabrous; scape-bracts linear-triangular, serrate, the upper shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence laxly paniculate, many-flowered; axes subferruginous-tomentellous or glabrous; primary bracts minute, about equaling the buds; branches spreading, slender, simple or compound, 10-20 cm long, very laxly flowered. Floral bracts very broadly ovate, apiculate, 4 mm long; flowers erect, sessile, 17-25 mm long. Sepals strongly asymmetric, ovate, obliquely truncate, 8-12 mm long, few-nerved; petals 25-28 mm long, yellow with a green spot at apex, equaling or exceeding the stamens; anthers 4-6 mm long, green.

  • Distribution

    Dry rocky slopes, 400-2100 m alt, northern Peru to northwestern Argentina.

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