Neoregelia wurdackii 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. Wurdack 2469 (holotype US, isotype USM), epiphytic 3-6 m above ground, occasional, forested ridge on the right bank of Río Santiago, 3-4 km above mouth, 300350 m alt, Prov. Bagua, Amazonas, Peru, 29 Oct 1962.
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Description
Description - Plant stoloniferous; stolons flattened, 11 mm wide. Leaves about 15 in a funnelform rosette, to 80 cm long, subdensely appressed-lepidote with brown-centered scales, the inner ones pink toward base; sheaths suborbicular, ca 8 cm long, entire except near apex; blades linear, attenuate, 15 mm wide, flat, laxly serrate with black antrorse spines 1.5 mm long. Inflorescence sunk in the center of the rosette, compound, corymbose, many-flowered, 3 cm in diameter; primary bracts elliptic, apiculate, exceeded by the sepals. Floral bracts oblong, broadly acute, thin and whitish except for the slightly excurrent green midrib, 25 mm long, sparsely lepidote. Sepals free, strongly asymmetric, 14 mm long including the 2 mm long blunt mucro, pale green, sparsely lepidote, the posterior ones carinate with the keels decurrent on the ovary; petals free, naked, white, the blades acuminate; ovary subcylindric, merging with the short indistinct pedicel.
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Distribution
Peru South America| Amazonas Peru South America|