Quesnelia indecora Mez
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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. Schott 5506 (holotype, W, lost), Brazil, or the original description and plate.
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Description
Description - Plant propagating by rhizomes. Leaves few in a subcylindric rosette, covered on both sides with pale appressed scales, the outer much reduced, the inner to 6 dm long; sheaths oblong-elliptic, slightly wider than the blades, pale; blades ligulate, acute and apiculate, to 38 mm wide, laxly and minutely serrulate. Scape decurved, very slender, white-tomentose but soon glabrous, shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts erect, clasping, slightly imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate, entire, membranaceous, rose. Inflorescence simple, dense, corymbiform or short-cylindric, to 5 cm long without the petals. Floral bracts with a broadly reniform base and narrowly triangular apex, subspreading, about equaling the sepals, more or less serrulate, membranaceous except at apex, rose, slightly lepidote; flowers subspreading, sessile. Sepals free, subtriangular, acuminate, asymmetric, to 19 mm long, rose; petals to 46 mm long, dark blue, recurved at anthesis and exposing the anthers, bearing 2 fimbriate scales; stamens much shorter than the petals, filaments of the second series highly adnate to the petals; pollen ellipsoid, biporate; ovary subglobose, triangulate, epigynous tube evident; placentae subapical.
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Distribution
Epiphytic and saxicolous, to 2000 m alt, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America|