Bromelia fosteriana 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. Foster 2389 (holotype, US), terrestrial, dense moist forest, Paramaribo, Suriname, 2 Oct 1948.
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Description
Description - Plant short-caulescent, propagating by numerous erect basal offsets. Leaves many, spreading, 9-12 dm long; sheaths oblong, 4 cm wide, brown, bearing coarse brown linear scales; blades sublinear, long-attenuate, contracted at base and then abruptly dilated into a suborbicular section, 5 cm wide, broadly channeled in the middle, brown-lepidote, soon glabrous above, laxly serrate with spines 1.5 mm long. Inflorescence few-flowered, densely corymbose, 5 cm in diameter, sunk in the center of the rosette, densely brown-lepidote including the petals; primary bracts subfoliaceous, the blades small, the sheaths equaling the sepals. Floral bracts oblong, much exceeding the ovaries, serrulate, thin and fragile when dry; flowers obscurely pedicellate. Sepals oblong, obtuse, cucullate, 21 mm long, connate to the middle, convex, serrulate; petals linear, obtuse, 37 mm long, much exceeding the stamens; filament-tube 17 mm long; ovary subcylindric, to 3 cm long.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Paramaribo Suriname South America|