Puya brittoniana Baker
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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. Rusby 2849 (holotype, NY), Ingenio del Oro, near Sorata, Larecaja, 3000 m alt, La Paz, Bolivia, Mar 1886.
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Description
Description - Plant known only from fragments. Leaves over 32 cm long; blades attenuate to a slender pungent spine, 15-18 mm wide, laxly serrate with coarse uncinate 5 mm long brown spines, sparsely white-1epidote beneath, glabrous above. Scape stout; scape-bracts densely imbricate, the upper ones ovate with a foliaceous blade, lanate. Inflorescence simple, densely cylindric, at least 15 cm long, densely pale-ferruginous-lanate except the petals; rhachis stout. Floral bracts ovate, acuminate, to 60 mm long, 38 mm wide, equaling or exceeding the flowers, entire, thin-coriaceous. Sepals lance-oblong, acute, 22 mm long, 12 mm wide, coriaceous, prominently nerved within; petals obtuse, 40 mm long, green, naked; stamens included.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Bolivia South America| La Paz Bolivia South America|