Vriesea philippocoburgii Wawra

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Vriesea philippocoburgii Wawra

  • Type

    Type. Wawra II-1 (holotype W n v lost), Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. In case no isotype is discovered, the species is well typified by Wawra s illustrations: It. Sax.-Cob. pl. 29, 37-A. 1883.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia philippocoburgii (Wawra) Baker

  • Description

    Description - Plant lacking rhizomes, flowering 1-3 m high. Leaves very many in a dense spreading rosette, 5-8 dm long; sheaths elliptic, distinctly wider than the blades, dark purple toward apex, diffusely and minutely brown-lepidote; blades ligulate, broadly rounded, apiculate, 5-8 cm wide, usually green except for the dark purple apex, obscurely lepidote. Scape erect, stout, much shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts densely imbricate, divergent, foliaceous, the upper bright red. Inflorescence very laxly paniculate, much branched, nearly glabrous; primary bracts much shorter than the branches, the lower subfoliaceous, ample, the upper ovate, apiculate; branches suberect, lax, to 5 dm long, the lower divided and bearing sterile bracts at base; rhachis slender, flexuous. Floral bracts downwardly secund with the flowers, broadly ovate, acute, about equaling the middle of the sepals, straight, ecarinate, membranaceous, red; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Sepals lanceolate or elliptic, broadly acute, to 25 mm long, ecarinate, yellow; petals linear, acute, 35-45 mm long, greenish toward apex, bearing 2 acute scales at base; stamens exserted. Capsule slender, slightly exceeding the sepals.

  • Distribution

    Saxicolous and epiphytic, coastal scrub to mountain cliffs and rainforest, 2-1200 m alt, Rio de Janeiro State to Rio Grande do Sul in eastern Brazil.

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