Pitcairnia samuelssonii 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. Ekman H-6017 (holotype, S; isotypes, GH, US), Plaine Central, Hinche, Savane Papaye, Haiti, 6 May 1926.
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Synonyms
Pitcairnia xanthocalyx Mez
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 15 dm high. Leaves many in a fasciculate rosette, dimorphic, some reduced to dark uncinate-serrate spines, others green and functional, 8 dm long; sheaths suborbicular, 20-25 mm long, dark-castaneous, covered at first with a membrane of whitish scales; blades linear, attenuate, slightly narrowed at the base, 8-18 mm wide, glabrous above, covered beneath with a fine persistent membrane of whitish scales. serrate, teeth 1 mm long or slightly more, uncinate, dense toward the base of the leaf, very lax elsewhere. Scape erect, 7-10 mm in diameter, very finely white-flocculose, soon glabrous; scape-bracts much shorter than the internodes, triangular-ovate, acuminate, white-flocculose. Inflorescence simple or few-branched, lax, 3-6 dm long. Moral bracts ovate, acute, distinctly shorter than the pedicels, white-flocculose; flowers suberect at anthesis, later recurved; pedicels slender, 1 cm long. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 21 mm long, ecarinate, white-flocculose; petals linear, obtuse, 5-7 cm long, yellow or cream, bearing a small semiorbicular scale at the base; stamens barely exserted; ovary half superior; ovules bicaudate.
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Distribution
Terrestrial and saxicolous, woods and xerophytic areas, 350-1050 m alt, Hispaniola.
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