Pitcairnia limae 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. D. A. Lima 55-2353 (holotype, IPA; photo, US), crest of the Serra de Maranguape, 1050 m alt, Ceará, Brazil, 23 Nov 1955.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 75 cm high. Leaves many, all alike; sheaths broadly ovate, 3 cm long, dark castaneous; blades persistent, linear, long-attenuate, scarcely contracted at base, 18 mm wide, densely cinereous-lepidote beneath, soon glabrous above, laxly spinose-serrate at base, entire elsewhere, those at the base of the scape to 22 cm long, linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 14 mm wide, entire, glabrous above, densely pale-lepidote beneath, involute-subulate toward apex. Scape erect, 5_8 mm in diameter, soon glabrous; scape-bracts erect, exceeding the internodes but the upper ones narrow and revealing most of the scape, lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate. Inflorescence simple, racemose, sublax, secund-flowered toward base, 21 cm long, nearly glabrous. Floral bracts narrowly lance-triangular, to 25 mm long, exceeding the pedicels, the lowest serrulate; pedicels slender, 8 mm long; flowers divergent to spreading, red. Sepals oblong, rounded and apiculate, 21 mm long; petals 55 mm long, naked or appendaged; ovary about half superior; ovules alate.
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Distribution
Known only from the type locality: 14 Sep 1908, Ducke s n (MG).
Brazil South America| Ceará Brazil South America|