Puya nitida 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

    Puya nitida Mez

  • Type

    TYPE. Goudot s n (holotype, P; photo, GH), near Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia, 1844.

  • Synonyms

    Puya woronowii Harms

  • Description

    Description - Plant flowering 1-2 m high. Leaves 3-6 dm long; sheaths suborbicular, denticulate, their upper third dark castaneous, elsewhere stramineous; blades 2-4 cm wide, sparsely and very obscurely lepidote, very laxly serrate with spreading dark straight or uncinate spines 3-5 mm long. Scape erect, ca 20 mm in diameter, ferruginous-lanate; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower ones subfoliaceous, the upper broadly elliptic with a small narrowly triangular serrulate apex, dark brown, lustrous. Inflorescence simple, cylindric, lax at anthesis, brown-lanate. Floral bracts elliptic, acute, nearly equaling the sepals, entire or obscurely denticulate, soon glabrous, dark brown, lustrous, rugulose; flowers spreading; pedicels 15-25 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 22-26 mm long; petals 5-6 cm long, yellow-green to violet; stamens included.

  • Distribution

    Páramos, 2700-3500 m alt, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

    Colombia South America| Cundinamarca Colombia South America|