Vriesea orjuelae L.B.Sm.
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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. Orjuela 290 (holotype US, isotype VALLE), seacoast, Río Raposo, ca 3° 43' N, 77° 10' W, 3 m alt, Valle, Colombia, 20 Aug 1966.
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Description
Description - Plant short-caulescent, reproducing vegetatively by basal offsets, flowering 55 cm high. Leaves many in a funnelform rosette, 3 dm long, minutely brown-lepidote throughout; sheaths subelliptic, 7 cm long, dark castaneous with pale margins and apex; blades narrowly triangular, 2-3 cm wide, flat. Scape erect, 4 mm in diameter at apex, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper broadly elliptic, long-attenuate. Inflorescence known only from a single old specimen, cylindric, laxly bipinnate, 15 cm long, glabrous; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, erect to spreading, exceeding the flowers; branches completely aborted with 2 flowers fasciculate in the axil of each primary bract. Floral bracts incompletely known but evidently broad and about equaling the 7 mm long spreading pedicels. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 17 mm long, coriaceous, even.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America|