Dyckia ferruginea Mez
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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. Kuntze s n (holotype, NY), Jacobina, Mato Grosso, Brazil, 10 Jul 1892.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 1 m or higher. Leaves often 8 dm long; sheaths suborbicular, 5 cm long, castaneous, glabrous, blades narrowly triangular, 25 mm wide, densely and coarsely repand-serrate with teeth 10 mm long, covered with subappressed whitish scales, becoming glabrous above. Scape stout, ferruginous-tomentulose or in age glabrous; lower scape-bracts foliaceous, imbricate, the upper linear-lanceolate, entire. Inflorescence simple, dense or more or less interrupted, many-flowered, densely ferruginous-tomentulose; rhachis stout. Floral bracts divergent to spreading, narrowly triangular, to 7 mm long, shorter than the sepals; flowers on very short pedicels, suberect to spreading. Sepals ovate, broadly rounded, 7-8.5 mm long; petals 10-14 mm long, yellowish green, thE blades broadly elliptic, obtuse, ecarinate, suberect, ferruginous-tomentulose outside; stamens about equaling the petals, the filaments free above the very short common tube with the petals, the anthers linear, obtuse, scarcely recurved; ovary sparsely lepidote, style about the same length.
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Distribution
Vertical walls of red sandstone, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America|