Brocchinia reducta Baker

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (1): 1-658. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Brocchinia reducta Baker

  • Type

    TYPE. Jenman 873 (holotype, K), Kaieteur Savanna, Essequibo, Guyana, Sep-Oct 1881.

  • Description

    Description - Plant stemless, flowering 5-6 dm high. Leaves erect, few in a cylindric rosette, 25-50 cm long; sheaths large, merging with the blades, densely lepidote with impressed scales; blades linear, rounded and apiculate, 3-6 cm wide, pale green, obscurely punctulate-lepidote on both sides. Scape terete, scarcely more than 3 mm in diameter, glabrous, whitish below, green above; scape-bracts not over 30 mm long, the lower subdense, whitish, the upper distant, elliptic, green. Inflorescence laxly bipinnate or near base tripinnate, sparsely pale-lepidote; racemes to 10 cm long, slenderly subvirgate. Floral bracts ovate, abruptly acuminate, 3 mm long; flowers erect, or suberect, 5 mm long, short-pedicellate. Sepals elliptic-ovate, subacute and mucronulate, 4 mm long, nearly equaling the petals, glabrous; petals suborbicular, obscurely unguiculate; stamens short-connate with the perianth, the anthers ovate, mucronulate; ovary slender, tomentellous; style rather stout, not attaining the anthers, divided into 3 long stipitiform stigmas. Capsule subcylindric, slender, 10 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Swampy savanna, 900-2200 m alt, Bolivar, Venezuela, and adjacent Guyana.

    Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America| Guyana South America| Essequibo Guyana South America|