Vriesea harmsiana (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Macbride 3272 (holotype F, isotype GH), Mito, Huanuco, Peru, Apr 1923.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia harmsiana L.B.Sm.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 6 dm or higher. Leaves 6 dm long; sheaths ovate-elliptic, 20-25 cm long, dark brown, densely appressed-lepidote; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, 4 cm wide, cinereous-lepidote throughout. Scape erect, stout; scape-bracts densely imbricate, ovate with long narrow recurved blades. Inflorescence bipinnate from about 7 spikes, densely cylindric, 30 cm long, less than 5 cm wide; axis completely covered by the spikes and bracts; primary bracts erect, ovate, acute, tightly enfolding the bases of the spikes; spikes strict, straight, linear-lanceolate, acute, complanate, 11-15 cm long, 3 cm wide, 12-20-flowered; rhachis winged and enfolding the flowers, densely lepidote. Floral bracts imbricate, ovate, acute, 3-4 cm long, exceeding the sepals but not covering the rhachis, carinate, yellow-brown with a purple base, diffusely to densely lepidote; flowers pedicellate, 5 cm long. Sepals free, narrowly ovate, 3 cm long, ecarinate, glabrous; petals narrow, purple, bearing 2 highly adnate scales; stamens slightly exserted; pistil exserted.
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Distribution
Saxicolous and epiphytic, steep rocky shrubby slopes, 2300-3000 m alt, northern Peru.
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