Deuterocohnia digitata L.B.Sm.
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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. Castellanos s n (holotype, 46636, BA; isotype, US), cerros de Cachi, Salta, Argentina, 7 Feb 1943.
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Synonyms
Deuterocohnia strobilifera Mez
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Description
Description - Plants forming rings, the flowering shoot 15-25 cm high. Leaves rosulate, 10-20 cm long; sheaths short but ample; blades 18 mm wide, covered with a whitish or silvery coat of scales, laxly serrate with spines 2 mm long. Scape erect, slender, nearly equaling the leaves; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes, the upper narrowly lanceolate, entire. Inflorescence digitate, subdigitate from a few spikes, or rarely simple, glabrous; primary bracts much shorter than the spikes, entire; spikes slenderly cylindric, dense, to 5 cm long. Floral bracts ovate, acute, slightly shorter than the sepals; flowers sessile or subsessile. Sepals elliptic, ca 8 mm long; petals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, bearing a single scale at base, about equaling the stamens; style slightly exserted.
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Distribution
Ca 2950 m alt, southwestern Bolivia, northwestern Argentina.
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