Bromelia villosa Mez
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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. Glaziou 22191 (holotype, B; photo F 11255), Sitio de Baracão to Areias, Goiás, Brazil, 30 Sep 1894.
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Description
Description - Leaves rosulate, to 1 m long, not narrowed between sheath and blade; sheaths large, subelliptic or triangular, forming a bulb above ground, covered with linear brown-ferruginous scales; blades linear, attenuate, 2-3 cm wide, white-lepidote beneath, laxly serrate with curved spines 3-5 mm long, the inner leaves red. Inflorescences very densely corymbose, nearly sessile in the center of the rosette, few-many-flowered, very densely pale brown-lanate except the petals; primary bracts like the inner leaves. Floral bracts very narrowly spatulate, obtuse, about equaling the sepals, entire or slightly serrulate toward apex, membranaceous, pale brown; flowers slenderly pedicellate, 45-50 mm long. Sepals oblong, 17 mm long, obtuse, free, ecarinate; petals slightly exceeding the sepals, connate for 12 mm, white or purple; ovary cylindric, very slender, much enlarged in fruit.
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Distribution
In campo and on sandstone outcrops in cerrado, central Brazil.
Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America| Goiás Brazil South America|