Dyckia tenuis 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. Gardner 3479 (holotype, BM, n v , isotype, K), Mission de Douro, Goiás, Brazil, Oct 1839.
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Synonyms
Dyckia morreniana Mez, Dyckia kuntzeana Mez
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 4-5 dm high. Leaves 2-4 dm long; sheaths small and inconspicuous; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, pungent, 15-17 mm wide, covered with pale appressed scales beneath, laxly serrate with slender spreading spines 2 mm long. Scape slender, soon glabrous; scape-bracts erect, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper entire or sparsely serrulate and about the length of the internodes. Inflorescence simple, few-flowered, lax, minutely furfuraceous. Floral bracts divergent to spreading, ovate with narrowly triangular apices, entire, the lower ones usually about equaling the flowers; pedicels stout, to 3 mm long; flowers 10-12 mm long, erect or suberect. Sepals ovate-elliptic, acute or obtuse, 6-7 mm long, glabrous or subglabrous; petals reddish, the blades suberect, broadly acute or obtuse; stamens exserted, the filaments free above the common tube with the petals, the anthers recurved; style very short or none.
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Distribution
Central Brazil.
Brazil South America| Goiás Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America|