Bromelia goeldiana 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. Ducke s n (holotype, MG 15113; isotype US), forest near the city, Obidos, Pará, Brazil, 9 Dec 1913.
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Synonyms
Bromelia cachimbensis L.B.Sm.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering over 4 dm high. Leaves over 2 m long, sheaths oblong, 10 cm long, badious-tomentose; blades dilated at base, elsewhere linear-triangular, acuminate, pungent, to 5 cm wide, glabrous, very laxly serrate with antrorse curved spines 10 mm long. Scape stout; scape-bracts erect, very densely imbricate, foliaceous. Inflorescence densely cylindric, 30 cm long, 10 cm in diameter, badious-lepidote including the petals; primary bracts erect, the lowest long-laminate, completely covering the short flowering branches. Floral bracts oblong, not at all dilated at apex, broadly acute, 4 cm long, distinctly exceeding the ovary, flat, laxly serrulate; pedicels slender, to 10 mm long. Sepals free, sublinear, carinate, cucullate, 27 mm long, sparsely serrulate; petals slightly exceeding the sepals; filament-tube 9 mm long; ovary cylindric, 13 mm long.
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Common Names
Maya
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Distribution
Saxicolous and terrestrial in woodland, 100 m alt, southern Venezuela, Amazonian Brazil.
Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America| Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America|