Vriesea bracteosa (Mez & Wercklé) L.B.Sm. & Pittendr.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Wercklé in Inst. Costar. 17291 (holotype B, isotype US), La Palma, San José, Costa Rica, Oct 1908.
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Synonyms
Thecophyllum bracteosum Mez & Wercklé
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering to 6 dm high, stout. Leaves many in a dense subutriculate rosette, 4 dm long; sheaths very broadly elliptic, to 15 cm long, densely brown-punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acute, 25 mm wide, spirally recurved at the apex, rigid when dry, glabrous above, obscurely punctulate-lepidote beneath, concolorous. Scape erect, stout, exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts erect, slightly longer than the internodes, broadly elliptic with a short, spirally recurved, foliaceous blade, lustrous, glabrous. Inflorescence strobilate, short-cylindric, obtuse, to 12 cm long and 5 cm in diameter; primary bracts suberect, imbricate, very broadly ovate, broadly rounded and apiculate, inflated, subcoriaceous, irregularly rugose when dry, exceeding the axillary flowers; branches aborted. Floral bracts very broadly elliptic, acute, 30-35 mm long, exceeding the sepals; flowers 3 in the axil of each primary bract, collateral, subsessile. Sepals suborbicular, obtuse, 17 mm long, coriaceous, rigid, even, glabrous; petals bearing 2 acute scales at base.
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Distribution
At 1500 m alt, Costa Rica.
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