Puya santosii Cuatrec.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (1): 1-658. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 1-2 m high. Leaves very numerous, sheaths very broadly elliptic, dark brown and serrulate near the apex, elsewhere pale and entire, blades linear, acuminate, rigid, even and glabrous above, minutely pale-lepidote between the nerves beneath, laxly serrate with slender dark uncinate spines 3.5 mm long. Scape central, erect, much exceeding the leaves, 4 cm in diameter; scape-bracts numerous and very densely imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper elliptic-oblong with a small linear glabrous green blade, dark brown, brown-tomentose. Inflorescence strobiliform, ellipsoid and obtuse at anthesis, cylindric in fruit, 3-5 dm long, brown-tomentose; primary bracts ample, dark brown, firm, finely nerved, opaque, the lower ones much exceeding the flowers, serrulate near apex, the upper shorter than the corollas, entire; fascicles of 2-3 fertile and several aborted flowers. Floral bracts ovate-elliptic, acute, exceeding the sepals; pedicels 5 mm long at anthesis, 10 mm long in fruit. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 16-19 mm long, 6-10 mm wide; petals obtuse, 30-36 mm long, 6-10 mm wide, greenish blue, naked; stamens included, anthers 4 mm long. Capsule subglobose, 12-20 mm long.