Dyckia goiana 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. Irwin et al 15163 (holotype, US; isotype, NY), cerrado, Côrrego Estrema, ca 42 km northeast of Formosa, Serra do Morcêgo, 800 m alt, Goiás, Brazil, 20 Apr 1966.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 2.5 m high. Leaves lacking (but judging from the lower scape-bracts) narrowly triangular, pungent, very laxly spinose-serrate, covered on both sides with appressed whitish scales at least at first. Scape stout, soon glabrous; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes, the lower presumably foliaceous, the upper ovate with a long narrowly triangular apex, serrulate. Inflorescence laxly compound, 1 m long, finely cinereous-lepidote at first; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, to 7 cm long; main axis stout; lateral branches suberect, slender, slightly flexuous, to 5 dm long. Floral bracts broadly ovate, serrulate, the lower long-acuminate and exceeding the flowers, the upper apiculate and shorter than the sepals; pedicels suberect, stout but distinct, to 4 mm long (fruit). Sepals broadly deltoid-ovate, to 6 mm long, equally wide, ecarinate, persistently lepidote; petals 10-12 mm long, orange, the blade spreading, elliptic, rounded, carinate, about equaling the stamens; filaments short-connate above the common tube; style distinct, 1 mm long.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Goiás Brazil South America| Brazil South America|