Pitcairnia calatheoides 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. Klug 4237 (holotype, GH; isotypes, F, US), forest, Juan Jui, upper Río Huallaga, 400-800 m alt, San Martin Peru, 1936.
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Description
Description - Plant nearly stemless, flowering 8 dm high. Leaves dimorphic, some reduced to broadly elliptic or suborbicular dark brown sheaths, others large, green, glabrous; petioles 8-9 dm long, slender, entire; blades oblanceolate, cuneate at base, abruptly contracted to an acuminate apex, 35-40 cm long, 15 cm wide, minutely reticulate. Scape erect, slender, red, sparsely floccose; scape-bracts ovate, acuminate, except for the highest much shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence simple, dense, 15 cm long, sparsely white-lepidote. Floral bracts spreading, lanceolate, acuminate, to 3 cm long, much exceeding the pedicels, chartaceous, prominently nerved; flowers erect or divergent; pedicels slender, 6 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 23 mm long, ecarinate, subchartaceous; petals linear, rounded and apiculate, 5 cm long, bright orange, bearing an oblong scale 1 cm long at base; stamens included, anthers linear, 1 cm long; ovary ½ inferior; ovules ecaudate.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Peru South America| San Martín Peru South America|