Bromelia arenaria Ule
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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. Ule 7151 (holotype, B; photo F 11249), in caatinga, Remanso, Bahia, Brazil, Dec 1906.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 4 dm high. Leaves many, not narrowed between sheath and blade, to 5 dm long; sheaths short, ovate, covered with dark linear scales; blades linear, acute, pungent, 15 mm wide, green and glabrous above, densely pale-lepidote beneath, serrate with broad curved dark brown spines 5-10 mm long. Scape white-flocculose; scape-bracts foliaceous, very large. Inflorescence paniculate, laxly cylindric, white-flocculose except for the petals; lower primary bracts subfoliaceous, much exceeding the branches, rose; branches few-flowered, lax. Floral bracts subovate, 8-10 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, equaling or shorter than the ovary; flowers 22-25 mm long, very short-pedicellate. Sepals free, erect, lanceolate, broadly acute, 12-13 mm long, 6-7 mm wide, slightly unequal, carinate; petals ligulate, obtuse, 16 mm long, connate for 5 mm, purple, glabrous, thick; stamens included; ovary obconic.
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Discussion
Note. The distinction of short petals for Bromelia arenaria Ule indicates that it may be only immature B. laciniosa Martius.
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Common Names
Macambira
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Distribution
Known from the type locality only.
Bahia Brazil South America|