Dyckia gracilis 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. D Orbigny 1006 (holotype, P; photo, GH; isotype, G; photo 8479, F), San Rafael, Chiquitos, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1850.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 5 dm high. Leaves to 3 dm long; blades narrowly triangular, 20-25 mm wide, covered beneath with closely appressed pale cinereous scales, serrate with spines 4 mm long. Scape very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts remote, very broadly ovate with a short acuminate apex, entire. Inflorescence simple, lax, few-flowered, minutely furfuraceous. Floral bracts reflexed, suborbicular-ovate, apiculate, ca. 4 mm long, much shorter than the sepals; flowers suberect, subsessile, slender. Sepals very broadly elliptic, emarginate, 7-9 mm long, nearly glabrous; petals 14-18 mm long, equaling or slightly shorter than the stamens, the blades erect, obovate, rounded, scarcely if at all carinate; stamens connate above the common tube with the petals; anthers linear, acute, strongly recurved; style 2-3 times shorter than the ovary.
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Distribution
Dry rocky soil, woods and savannas, 230-500 m alt., southeastern Bolivia and adjacent Argentina.
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