Bromelia sylvicola S.Moore
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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. S. Moore 489 (holotype, BM; photo GH), Diamantino to Santa Cruz, Rio Paraguai, Mato Grosso, Brazil, Oct 1891.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 3-4 dm high. Leaves rosulate, spreading, to 3 m long, not narrowed between sheath and blade; sheaths broadly subtriangular (exterior) to obovate (interior), densely white-lepidote beneath; blades linear, long-attenuate, 25 mm wide, glabrous above, minutely pale-lepidote beneath, laxly serrate with curved spines 3-5 mm long, the outer green, the inner bright red. Scape well developed, stout, densely white-flocculose; scape-bracts like the inner leaves but smaller, densely imbricate. Inflorescence sublaxly paniculate, pyramidal, ca 15 cm long, 11-12 cm wide, white-flocculose; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts and exceeding the branches, the upper bladeless and shorter than the branches; branches spreading or subspreading. Floral bracts variable in size, sometimes exceeding the ovary, at others shorter, oblong, obtuse, entire, white, papyraceous; flowers 3-4 cm long, short-pedicellate. Sepals free, erect, oblong, obtuse or emarginate, 10-16 mm long, carinate, white, papyraceous; petals erect, 15-21 mm long, connate for 5 mm, sparsely lepidote, purple, thickened toward apex; stamens slightly shorter than the petals; ovary subellipsoid.
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Distribution
Forest and thickets in gravel soil, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
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