Pseudananas sagenarius (Arruda) Camargo
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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. No known type extant, typified by description.
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Synonyms
Bromelia sagenaria Arruda, Bromelia sylvestris Link, Ananas sagenaria (Arruda) Schult. & Schult.f., Ananassa sagenaria (Arruda) D.Dietr., Ananas macrodontes E.Morren, Bromelia macrodosa E.Morren, Bromelia undulata E.Morren, Ananas sylvestris (Vell.) Müller, Ananas bracteatus var. sagenarius (Arruda) Bertoni, Ananas sativus var. sagenarius (Arruda) Bertoni, Ananas sativus var. macrodontes Bertoni, Ananas microcepalus Bertoni, Pseudananas macrodontes (E.Morren) Harms, Pseudananas sagenarius var. macrodontes (E.Morren) Camargo
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Description
Description - Plant caulescent, propagating by long rhizomes, flowering 1.5 m high; stem leafy, straight, 30 cm high, 5 cm in diameter, leafless toward base. Leaves 30-40, arching-decurved, to 12 dm long; sheaths narrow and indistinct, entire; blades 6-7 cm wide, deeply channeled, coriaceous, reddish green and lustrous above, densely lepidote beneath, laxly serrate with curved antrorse and retrorse spines 10 mm long. Scape erect, 20-30 cm high, ca 25 mm in diameter, furfuraceous; scape-bracts foliaceous, reduced, reddish. Inflorescence simple, strobilate, ovoid, to 17 cm long, 9 cm in diameter, 150-200-flowered. Floral bracts densely imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate, erect, nearly equaling the petals, serrulate, red, cinereous-lepidote, persistent; flowers opening in succession. Sepals erect, asymmetric, ovate, narrowed at base, apiculate, 10-13 mm long, conduplicate or merely channeled, thick with membranous margins, red orange, sparsely lepidote; petals tubular-erect, 4-5 cm long, the claw oblong, white, the blade lanceolate, purplish; stamens included, adnate to the petals. Syncarp 20 cm long, 10 cm in diameter, succulent.
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Common Names
Gravatá de cerca, ivira, yvira
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Distribution
Terrestrial on open ground to dense forest, from near sea level to 1400 m alt, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
Ecuador South America| Chimborazo Ecuador South America| Santa Cruz Bolivia South America| Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Espirito Santo Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America| Guanabara Brazil South America| São Paulo Brazil South America| Paraná Brazil South America| Santa Catarina Brazil South America| Paraguay South America| Guairá Paraguay South America| Argentina South America| Formosa Argentina South America| Chaco Argentina South America| San Miguel El Salvador Central America| Misiones Argentina South America|