Neoregelia wilsoniana M.B.Foster
-
Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
-
Family
Bromeliaceae
-
Scientific Name
-
Type
Type. R. H. & C. Wilson 20 (holotype US), Between Ilheus and Agua Preta, Bahia, Brazil, 25 Jun 1955.
-
Description
Description - Plant stemless, propagating by numerous slender scaly stolons from the axils of the much reduced lower leaves. Leaves about 20 in a fasciculate rosette, the inner ones to 7 dm long, sparsely lepidote beneath with fine appressed brownish scales; sheaths broadly ovate, 8-10 cm long, green or purplish with a broad pale margin; blades flagelliform, 2 cm wide at base but becoming inrolled and appearing much narrower, green, concolorous, sparsely serrulate toward base with upwardly curved flat brown spines 1 mm long. Inflorescence simple, 16-20-flowered, hidden in the center of the rosette. Floral bracts broadly ovate, about half as long as the pedicels, thin, pale green, entire, sparsely lepidote; pedicels very slender, 22 mm long. Sepals short-connate, 26 mm long, slightly asymmetric, lanceolate, broadly acute, pale green, thin, glabrous; petals white, connate in a slender tube as long as the sepals, the blades spreading, lanceolate, acute, 20 mm long; stamens included, almost completely adnate to the petals; ovary ellipsoid, 7 mm long.
-
Distribution
Southeastern Bahia, Brazil.
Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America|