Araeococcus goeldianus L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. J. Huber 983 (holotype MG, photo US), Cunani, Amapá, Brazil, 15 Oct 1895.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 70 cm high; leaves few in an ellipsoid rosette, the outer ones reduced to acute sheaths, the inner about equaling the inflorescence; sheaths elliptic, about 25 cm long; blades ligulate, acute, narrowed toward base, flat, 4 cm wide, laxly serrulate. Scape erect, slender; scape-bracts imbricate, lanceolate. Inflorescence laxly tripinnate, 14-28 cm long; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts but smaller, much shorter than the axillary branches; branches divergent, 10 cm long, few-branched, slightly flexuous, slender, very laxly flowered. Floral bracts suborbicular, 3 mm long, apiculate, minutely serrulate, membranaceous; flowers sessile, spreading. Sepals free, oblong, asymmetric, 2 mm long, truncate and apiculate; petals 5 mm long, the blade elliptic, obtuse. Fruit globose, 3 mm long.
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Distribution
Epilithic and epiphytic, 10-80 m alt, Amapá, Brazil.
Brazil South America| Amapá Brazil South America|