Bromelia pinguin L.
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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. Clifford Hortus (BM n v), Jamaica.
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Synonyms
Karatas penguin Miller, Bromelia peguin L., Bromelia ignea Beer, Agallostachys pinguin (L.) Beer, Karatas plumieri E.Morren, Bromelia paraguayensis Baker, Ananas pinguin Trew, Bromelia fastuosa Lindl., Bromelia sepiaria Schult.f., Bromelia acarna Schult.f. ex Thunb., Agallostachys fastuosa (Lindl.) Beer, Agallostachys pinguin (L.) Beer, Karatas pinguin Baker ex Mill.
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Description
Description - Leaves many, rosulate, often over 2 m long, not at all constricted between the sheath and the blade; sheaths very broad, densely and coarsely tomentose-lepidote; blades linear, attenuate, 4 cm wide, deep green above, pale green and very minutely pale-appressed-lepidote below, armed with stout teeth up to 10 mm long. Scape stout, white-farinose; scape-bracts foliaceous but with the sheaths roseate and subinflated. Inflorescence many-flowered, narrowly pyramidal, white-farinose; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but the upper ones entire; branches up to 12-flowered. Floral bracts linear-subulate from a short broad base, 3 cm long, much shorter than to about equaling the ovary; flowers up to 6 cm long, distinctly pedicellate. Sepals erect, very narrowly triangular-subulate, 15-30 mm long, flat or nearly so, pale; petals 3 cm long, 5.5-6 mm wide, linear-elliptic, rose with white base and margins, densely white-tomentose at the apex; ovary slenderly ellipsoid, 2 cm long. Fruit ovoid, about 35 mm long, yellow or ochraceous, strongly verrucose, acidulous, aromatic.
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Common Names
Piñuela, pinguin, curujujul, maya, mayo
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Distribution
Dry thickets and slopes, from slightly above sea level to 780 m alt, Mexico and the West Indies to Guiana and Ecuador.
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