Monographs Details – French Guianan E-Flora Project

Monographs Details:

Authority:

Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

Family:

Bromeliaceae

Scientific Name:

Catopsis berteroniana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Mez

Synonyms:

Catopsis mosenii Mez, Tillandsia berteroniana Schult. & Schult.f., Tillandsia pendula Thunb. ex G.Gaertn., Renealmia pendula G.Gaertn., Pogospermum berteronianum (Schult.f.) Brongn.

Description:

Description - Plant flowering 4-9 dm high. Leaves several in a subfasciculate rosette, to 4 dm long, densely white-cretaceous, especially toward the base, light green; sheaths elliptic, about as long as the blades; blades triangular, acute, 4-5 cm wide. Scape erect, 5-10 mm in diameter, soon glabrous; scape-bracts erect, the lower foliaceous and densely imbricate, the upper very broadly ovate, apiculate, often shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence bipinnate or rarely simple, up to 3 dm long; primary bracts very broadly ovate, apiculate, mostly shorter than the sterile base of the spike; spikes suberect, long-stipitate, rather laxly many-flowered. Floral bracts broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, 6-8 mm long, coriaceous; flowers perfect or rarely dimorphic (Mexico), suberect. Sepals strongly asymmetric, obovate, to 12 mm long and 9 mm wide, equaling or exceeding the petals, coriaceous; petals ovate-elliptic, white; stamens included, unequal, the first series distinctly longer than the second; filaments of the second series short-connate with the petals; anthers obtuse, 2 mm long; style distinct, one third as long as the ovary. Capsule stoutly ellipsoid, barely exceeding the sepals.