Orthophytum rubrum 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. Foster 2444 (holotype, US), on Table Rock near Maracás, Bahia, Brazil, 1948, flowered in cultivation 1952.
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Description
Description - Leaves numerous, 55 cm long, covered at first with white appressed scales; sheaths suborbicular, 2-3 cm long, pale brown, becoming glabrous and lustrous; blades linear-triangular, caudate-attenuate, 2 cm wide, laxly serrate with pale ascending spines 2 mm long, becoming glabrous above. Scape elongate; scape-bracts foliaceous, spreading. Inflorescence digitate from a few spikes; primary bracts foliaceous, about twice as long as the spikes, spreading; spikes ellipsoid, densely many-flowered, 4 cm long, 25 mm in diameter, red. Floral bracts divergent, broadly ovate, acuminate, 2 cm long, serrate, nerved, soon glabrous. Sepals triangular, mucronulate, 12 mm long, the posterior ones very broadly alate-carinate; petals 15 mm long, white, appendaged well above the base; stamens included; ovary subglobose.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Bahia Brazil South America|