Dyckia floribunda Griseb.

  • 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

    Dyckia floribunda Griseb.

  • Type

    TYPE. Hieronymus 566 in part (holotype GOET, n v), Sierra Chica, Quebrada de Colanchanga, cerca del cerro Pan de Azúcar, Córdoba, Argentina, Dec 1875. Material under this number in Cordoba has somewhat different locality data. Cf A. T. Hunziker, Trab. Mus. Bot. Univ. Nac. Cordoba 2: 300. 1960. Evidently the numbers of Hieronymus do not represent individual collections, but rather a group of collections that he considered all one species.

  • Synonyms

    Dyckia gilliesii Baker, Dyckia chaguar A.Cast.

  • Description

    Description - Plant flowering 6-10 dm high. Leaves 2-10 dm long; sheaths suborbicular, 3-6 cm long, pale, glabrous; blades attenuate to a pungent apex, 25 mm wide, covered with white or cinereous scales especially beneath, laxly serrate with curved spines 4-6 mm long. Scape elongate, 5-8 mm in diameter at apex, glabrescent; scape-bracts shorter than the internodes, broadly triangular-ovate, acuminate, thin. Inflorescence paniculate, lax, many-flowered, lepidote at least at anthesis; primary bracts ovate, apiculate, small and inconspicuous; branches subspreading, slightly flexuous, laxly to densely flowered. Floral bracts ovate-triangular, acute or apiculate, much exceeded by the sepals; pedicels very short at anthesis, to 4 mm long in fruit; flowers divergent to spreading, orange. Sepals broad, rounded, obtuse or apiculate, 7 mm long, strongly convex; petals obovate-elliptic, broadly rounded and emarginate, 10-14 mm long, forming a very short ring with the stamens, undulate, carinate; stamens slightly exserted, free above the common tube; anthers sublinear, acute, more or less recurved; styles free, very short; ovules with a short lateral falciform-incurved wing.

  • Common Names

    Chaguar

  • Distribution

    Dry rocky slopes, 800-1200 m alt, north central and northwestern Argentina.

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