Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana (Wittm. ex Baker) Mez
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Schimper 270 (holotype, K), "South Brazil, near San Bento," Santa Catarina (?).
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Synonyms
Billbergia schimperiana Wittm. ex Baker, Billbergia nutans var. schimperiana f. rupestris Hassl.
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Description
Description - Leaves entire. Petals blue at apex as well as margins.Leaves usually fasciculate, 3-7 dm long (rarely rosulate and up to 1 m long ! Hassler), the outer much reduced; sheaths narrowly ovate, subdensely vestite with small white appressed scales; blades linear or very narrowly triangular, attenuate, white-lepidote beneath, 6-17 mm wide, laxly serrate with slender spines 1 mm long or sometimes entire. Scape decurved, very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, lanceolate, acute, rose. Inflorescence pseudosimple with very short branches, lax, usually few-flowered, glabrous; axis slender, geniculate. Floral bracts minute, much shorter than the ovaries, sometimes adnate to the pedicels; flowers in 2 ranks, sessile to short-pedicellate, divergent or erect. Sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 15-20(-27 ! Mez) mm long, rose with dark blue margins; petals linear, obtuse, 33-46 mm long, equaling the stamens, pale green with dark blue margins, bearing 2 large coarsely serrate scales at base; filaments of the second series short-connate with the petals; pollen ellipsoid, sulcate, sculptured; ovary subellipsoid, 8-14 mm long, more or less sulcate, the epigynous tube large; placentae linear; ovules obtuse.
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Distribution
Southern Brazil, Paraguay.
Brazil South America| Santa Catarina Brazil South America|