Puya isabellina 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
Weberbauer 4144 (holotype, B; photo, F), below Santa Cruz, Hualgoc, Cajamarca, Peru.
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Description
Description - Stem "thicker than a human arm," decumbent. Leaves very stiff, decurved, to 3 dm long; blades 40 mm wide, densely pale-lepidote beneath between the nerves, serrate with corneous spines 8 mm long. Scape unknown. Inflorescence simple, very densely cylindric, many-flowered, to 3 dm long and 1 dm in diameter including the flowers. Floral bracts elliptic, long- or short-acuminate, entire or obscurely denticulate, minutely furfuraceous, even, becoming striate and glabrous, the median 35 mm long, 18 mm wide, the highest recurved-spreading at apex, notably shorter than the flowers; flowers suberect; pedicels very short and stout. Sepals acute, 24 mm long, equaling the median bracts, furfuraceous-lanulose; petals broadly subacute, 50 mm long, isabelline brown, naked, exceeding the stamens.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Peru South America| Cajamarca Peru South America|