Brocchinia acuminata 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. Tate 1274 (holotype, NY), Mount Auyan-tepuí, Venezuela, Dec 1937-Jan 1938.
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Description
Description - Flowering plant 2 m high. Leaves in a bulbous rosette 25 cm in diameter, 8 dm long, sheaths elliptic, 20 cm wide, dark castaneous, subdensely appressed-white-lepidote, blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, 2-4 cm wide, glabrous. Scape straight, 2 cm in diameter, its bracts foliaceous, the upper ones with sheaths shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence amply paniculate, lax, 1 m long, glabrous or nearly so; primary bracts subfoliaceous. Floral bracts broadly triangular; flowers subsessile, divergent, 9-12 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate, obtuse, cucullate, 4.5 mm long; petals narrowly obovate; ovary terete, almost wholly inferior.
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Distribution
Saxicolous and terrestrial, open summits, thickets, and dwarf forest, 600-1850 m alt, southeastern Colombia and southern Venezuela.
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