Pitcairnia epiphytica L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (1): 1-658. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
TYPE. Maguire, Wurdack & Bunting 37442 (holotype, NY), epiphytic, along uppermost Río Yatua above mouth of Río Yacibo, 100-140 m alt, Amazonas, Venezuela, 30-31 Jan 1954.
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Description
Description - Plant caulescent; stem flexuous. Leaves densely imbricate; sheaths ovate, 4-6 cm long, entire, dark castaneous, densely appressed-brown-lepidote; blades dimorphic, some reduced to small flexuous slender laxly serrulate flagellae, others long-petiolate, linear-lanceolate, attenuate at both ends, 8 dm long, 35 mm wide, glabrous above, beneath densely appressed-white-lepidote, serrulate toward apex, the petiole very laxly serrate. Scape erect, flexuous, white-flocculose; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes, lanceolate, long-acuminate and serrulate toward apex, green. Inflorescence simple, sublax, 4 dm long, except for the petals sparsely white-flocculose. Floral bracts thin, the lower like the scape-bracts, about equaling the flowers, the highest floral bracts linear-lanceolate, not exceeding the pedicels; pedicels spreading, slender, to 3 cm long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 30 mm long, ecarinate, red; petals 50 mm long, red, bearing a truncate erose scale at base; ovary ca 1/2 inferior; ovules winged.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America|