Pitcairnia kunhardtiana 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. Maguire & Politi 28368 (holotype, US; isotype, NY), terrestrial, wet cliffs, lower central eastern drainage, Cerro Sipapo (Paráque), 1650 m alt, Amazonas, Venezuela, 14 Jan 1949.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering over 1.3 m high. Leaves 1.4 m long, glabrous above, beneath densely appressed-brown-lepidote, subdensely serrulate; sheaths ovate, 5 cm wide; blades linear, long-attenuate, slightly contracted at base, 3 cm wide. Scape robust, white-flocculose, soon glabrous; scape-bracts with a broadly elliptic red base produced into an elongate foliaceous blade, the highest ones remote. Inflorescence few-branched, 4 dm long, red; primary bracts suborbicular, apiculate, much shorter than the branches, thin, subentire, white-lepidote; spikes erect, short-pedunculate, narrowly ovoid, densely many-flowered, 5-6 cm long, the highest congested, the others remote. Floral bracts orbicular, much shorter than the sepals, thin, white-lepidote; pedicels slender, 3 mm long; flowers strict. Sepals lance-oblong, obtuse, 14 mm long, bicarinate toward base, nerved, glabrous; petals exceeding the sepals by 12 mm, naked; stamens included; ovary 5/8 superior. Capsule dehiscent; seeds winged.
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Distribution
Known from the type locality only.
Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America|