Taxon Details: Bromelia plumieri (E.Morren) L.B.Sm.
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Family:
Bromeliaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Bromeliaceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Bromelia plumieri (E.Morren) L.B.Sm.
Bromelia plumieri (E.Morren) L.B.Sm.
Primary Citation:
Phytologia 15: 173, t. 2, f. 21. 1967
Phytologia 15: 173, t. 2, f. 21. 1967
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Common Names:
Plumier's bromelia, Piñuela aguama cazuela, piñuela, piro
Plumier's bromelia, Piñuela aguama cazuela, piñuela, piro
Description:
Author : Juan Francisco Morales, Xavier Cornejo & Reinaldo Aguilar.
Description: Terrestrial herbs, forming funnelform rosettes, growing in clumps, stoloniferous. Blades strap-like, 150-310 x 2-5 cm, the inner ones turning bright pink at flowering time, the margins armed with stout teeth, the apex attenuate. Scapes very short or lacking. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, densely corymbose, bearing many flowers; floral bracts narrowly-oblanceolate, (65) 80-90 mm long, reaching the middle of sepals, membranaceous. Flowers polystichously arranged, 6-9 cm long, the pedicels very short and stout; sepals erect, narrowly lanceolate, 24-30 mm long, free; petals narrowly lanceolate, to 40 mm long, rose with white base and margins, connate for more than 20 mm. Fruits fusiform, 60-87 x 20-25 mm, pink.
Common names: Aguama casuela (indigenous language, Mexico, Sinaloa), cham chom (Maya, Guatemala), gravatá (indigenous language, Brazil), ping wing (indigenous language, Belize), piña (Spanish, Guatemala), piñuela (Spanish, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador) (Smith & Downs, 1979).
Distribution: Mexico to northern South America and the West Indies from sea level to 1500 m (Smith & Downs, 1979).
Ecology: In moist and wet forests.
Phenology: This species has been observed with flowers in Jun and Aug (Morales, 2003).
Pollination: No observations recorded, but this species is most likely pollinated by hummingbirds because of the bright pink inner leaves.
Dispersal: No observations recorded.
Taxonomic notes: Bromelia plumieri resembles B. lagopus Mez, a poorly known species restricted to northeastern Brazil. But B. plumieri differs by the larger ovaries (to 8 cm long), and the larger sepals (30-40 mm long) (Smith & Down, 1979). In our area, B. plumieri is recognized by the absence of a scape and flowers and fruits covered by a ferrugineous pubescence (Morales, 2003).
Conservation: Not recorded.
Uses: None recorded.
Etymology: The specific epithet honors Charles Plumier, a French botanist and explorer who discovered this species in the West Indies (Plumier, 1703; Smith & Downs, 1979).
Author : Juan Francisco Morales, Xavier Cornejo & Reinaldo Aguilar.
Description: Terrestrial herbs, forming funnelform rosettes, growing in clumps, stoloniferous. Blades strap-like, 150-310 x 2-5 cm, the inner ones turning bright pink at flowering time, the margins armed with stout teeth, the apex attenuate. Scapes very short or lacking. Inflorescences shorter than leaves, densely corymbose, bearing many flowers; floral bracts narrowly-oblanceolate, (65) 80-90 mm long, reaching the middle of sepals, membranaceous. Flowers polystichously arranged, 6-9 cm long, the pedicels very short and stout; sepals erect, narrowly lanceolate, 24-30 mm long, free; petals narrowly lanceolate, to 40 mm long, rose with white base and margins, connate for more than 20 mm. Fruits fusiform, 60-87 x 20-25 mm, pink.
Common names: Aguama casuela (indigenous language, Mexico, Sinaloa), cham chom (Maya, Guatemala), gravatá (indigenous language, Brazil), ping wing (indigenous language, Belize), piña (Spanish, Guatemala), piñuela (Spanish, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador) (Smith & Downs, 1979).
Distribution: Mexico to northern South America and the West Indies from sea level to 1500 m (Smith & Downs, 1979).
Ecology: In moist and wet forests.
Phenology: This species has been observed with flowers in Jun and Aug (Morales, 2003).
Pollination: No observations recorded, but this species is most likely pollinated by hummingbirds because of the bright pink inner leaves.
Dispersal: No observations recorded.
Taxonomic notes: Bromelia plumieri resembles B. lagopus Mez, a poorly known species restricted to northeastern Brazil. But B. plumieri differs by the larger ovaries (to 8 cm long), and the larger sepals (30-40 mm long) (Smith & Down, 1979). In our area, B. plumieri is recognized by the absence of a scape and flowers and fruits covered by a ferrugineous pubescence (Morales, 2003).
Conservation: Not recorded.
Uses: None recorded.
Etymology: The specific epithet honors Charles Plumier, a French botanist and explorer who discovered this species in the West Indies (Plumier, 1703; Smith & Downs, 1979).
Flora and Monograph Treatment(s):
Bromelia plumieri (E.Morren) L.B.Sm.: [Article] Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142.
Bromelia plumieri (E.Morren) L.B.Sm.: [Article] Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142.