Bromelia tubulosa L.B.Sm.

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bromelia tubulosa L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    Type. Wurdack & Adderley 43525 (holotype, US; isotype, NY), right bank of Rio Siapa 8 km below Gallineta (about 100 river km from mouth), Amazonas, Venezuela, 20 Jul 1959.

  • Description

    Description - Leaves to 1.5 m long; sheaths subovate, 7 cm long, covered at base with linear pale brown scales, densely recurved-serrate; blades linear, attenuate, slightly narrowed toward base but not petiolate, to 3 cm wide, sparsely and obscurely pale-lepidote, laxly serrate with antrorse and retrorse spines 4 mm long. Inflorescence corymbose, nidular in the center of the rosette, rather few-flowered, 6 cm in diameter, densely brown-lepidote including the petals; primary bracts subfoliaceous. Floral bracts oblong, 4 cm long, exceeding the ovary, serrate at apex. Sepals to 2 cm long, highly and irregularly connate into a cylindric tube, convex, irregularly lobed and serrate at apex; petals linear, obtuse, 4 cm long, much exceeding the stamens, white; filament-tube 20 mm long; ovary subcylindric, to 25 mm long.

  • Distribution

    On crystalline laja in forest and on white sand, 200-300 m alt, southern Venezuela and Amazonian Brazil.

    Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America|