Pitcairnia palmeri S.Watson
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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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Description
Description - Plant stemless, very slender, 16-45 cm tall. Leaf-sheaths forming an ovoid pseudobulb; blades dimorphic, some persistent, brown, setiform, densely armed with slender retrorse teeth, others deciduous along a straight transverse line, green, linear, filiform-attenuate, 2 dm long, 3 mm wide, densely tomentose-lepidote below when young, only the persistent stub serrate. Scape erect, 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter, scantly lepidote; scape-bracts erect, exceeding the internodes, very narrowly triangular, setose-pungent, lepidote. Inflorescence secundly racemose, few-flowered, lax, 6-16 cm long. Floral bracts erect, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scantly lepidote; flowers spreading to nutant; pedicels up to 15 mm long, very slender, nearly or quite terete. Sepals narrowly triangular, attenuate, 21 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, ecarinate, scantly lepidote; petals linear, acute, 4-5 cm long, exceeding the stamens, red, naked, not recurved at anthesis; anthers 6 mm long; ovary two-thirds superior; ovules caudate.