Racinaea spiculosa (Griseb.) M.A.Spencer & L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Sterile plants 15-50 cm tall, variable in size and color, flowering plant to 100 cm, ± lustrous-green. Leaves thin, coriaceous, 10-47 cm long; sheath suborbicular to oblong, 4.5-24 cm long dull-brown towards base; blade strap-shaped, J broadly rounded or obtuse and apiculate, or blade very narrowly triangular and attenuately acute, 1-4.5 cm long, sparsely lepidote. Inflorescences 1- or 2-branched, with 2-12 distichously arranged, widely spaced lateral branches, the peduncle 10-70 cm long, the spikelets subdensely and distichously 6-27-flowered, complanate, linear-lanceolate, 2.5-9.5 X 0.5-1 cm, the floral bracts ecarinate, broadly ovate, 0.4-0.7 cm long, sparsely to subdensely appressed-lepidote abaxially, mostly greenish, sometimes yellow-brown or dull purple-rose. Flowers appressed or divergent, sessile; sepals slightly to strongly asymmetrical, apically winged, 0.4-0.6cm long, the adaxial ones bluntly carinate near base, free; petals spreading, barely exserted beyond calyx, yellow- brown or dull purple -rose. Flowers appressed or diveregent, sessile; sepals slightly to strongly asymmetrical, apically winged, 0.4-0.6 cm long, the adaxial ones bluntly carinate near base, free; petals spreading, barely exserted beyond calyx, yellow.
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Distribution
Fr (Jan, Apr); epiphyte, rare.
French Guiana South America|