Neoglaziovia variegata (Arruda) Mez

  • 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

    Neoglaziovia variegata (Arruda) Mez

  • Type

    Type. No known type extant, typified by description.

  • Synonyms

    Bromelia variegata Arruda, Billbergia variegata (Vell.) Beer, Agallostachys variegata (Arruda) Beer, Bromelia linifera Beer, Dyckia glaziovii Baker

  • Description

    Description - Plant propagating by underground rhizomes. Leaves few in a fasciculate rosette, to 15 dm long, exceeding the inflorescence; sheaths narrow and inconspicuous, entire, covered beneath with a whitish membrane of fused scales; blades linear, acuminate, pungent, 15-20 mm wide, minutely and obscurely punctulate-lepidote on both sides, green and smooth above, broadly white-banded beneath, margins revolute, laxly serrate with curved spines to 4 mm long. Scape erect, ca 5 mm in diameter, densely white-flocculose; scape-bracts large, much exceeding the internodes, subfoliaceous, narrow, entire or slightly serrulate. Inflorescence lax or sublax, to 25 cm long, 10-60-flowered. Lower floral bracts linear and about equaling the flowers, the upper triangular and shorter than the pedicels; pedicels ca 4 mm long; flowers spreading, glabrous. Sepals free, suborbicular, obtuse or sometimes minutely mucronate, 6-7 mm long, red; petals ligulate, obtuse, 13 mm long, purple, bearing 2 subentire scales at base; ovary obovoid, 5 mm long; epigynous tube short but evident; placentae subapical.

  • Discussion

    Economic data. Xavier, Lauro P. 1942 [1944]. O (0 = The) Caroa. Ministerio da Agricultura, Depto. Nac. da Produção Vegetal, Divisão de Fomento da Produção Vegetal, Secção de Fomento Agricola-Paraiba. 1-270.

  • Common Names

    Caróa, caruá

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial and saxicolous in dry open areas or low thorn forest (caatinga), northeastern Brazil.

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