Puya goudotiana Mez

  • 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

    Puya goudotiana Mez

  • Type

    TYPE. Goudot s n (holotype, P; photo, GH), near Bogotá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, 1844.

  • Synonyms

    Puya bonplandiana Cuatrec.

  • Description

    Description - Plant flowering to 5 m high. Leaves over 1 m long; sheaths suborbicular, pale, densely serrulate; blades 50-75 mm wide, minutely pale-lepidote between the nerves beneath, glabrous above, very laxly serrate with flat dark more or less uncinate spines 4-11 mm long. Scape erect, very stout; scape-bracts densely imbricate, the lower subfoliaceous but with thinner bases, the upper suborbicular with a narrowly triangular apex, dark brown, submembranaceous, soon disintegrating. Inflorescence bipinnate, substrobilate, cylindrical; primary bracts very broadly ovate, triangular-acute, longer or shorter than the axillary branches, covered with a pale brown evanescent indument, dark brown, membranaceous, disintegrating soon after anthesis; racemes erect or suberect, lax, the axes 2-8 cm long, rather slender. Floral bracts broadly elliptic, acute, exceeding the pedicels, dark brown, membranaceous; flowers divergent to spreading; pedicels slender, 15-35 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 20-29 mm long, prominently nerved, pubescent with minute pale trichomes, soon glabrous; petals 5-6 cm long, the blade suborbicular, green or greenish blue; stamens shorter than the petals, the anthers 8-9 mm long. Capsule subglobose.

  • Distribution

    Páramo, 2600-3440 m alt, north central Colombia.

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