Neoregelia margaretae L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Margaret Mee s n (holotype US), epiphytic, by Rio Içana (tributary of upper Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brazil, Jan 1965, cultivated 4 Feb 1968.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless but propagating by elongate stolons with distichous imbricate triangular bracts. Leaves more than 30 in a dense rosette, over 30 cm long; sheaths large, suborbicular, green; blades ligulate, rounded or broadly acute and mucronate, 4 cm wide, laxly serrate with coarse black antrorse uncinate spines, the outer green above and whitish beneath, the median red at base, and the innermost wholly red. Inflorescence central, sunk in the center of the leaf-rosette, few-flowered. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the ovaries, membranaceous, entire, laxly punctulate-lepidote; flowers obscurely pedicellate for 4.5 mm. Sepals asymmetric, sulanceolate, acuminate, 21 mm long, connate for 3 mm; petals ca. 1 cm long, white, blades spreading, ovate, acuminate; ovary very slenderly clavate, 20 mm long.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America|