Portea fosteriana 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 194 A (holotype, GH; isotype, US), in sun and sand, Santa Teresa, 600 m alt, Espírito Santo, Brazil, 13 Jul 1939.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering over 8 dm high. Leaves many, rosulate, nearly 1 m long, covered on both sides with appressed cinereous brown-centered scales; sheaths broadly elliptic, 20 cm long, dark castaneous; blades ligulate, subacute with a dark pungent mucro, 9 cm wide, flat, subdensely serrate with straight antrorse dark spines 3 mm long. Scape erect, straight, 1 cm in diameter; scape-bracts subfoliaceous, rather thin except for the stout pungent apex, serrulate, densely lepidote. Inflorescence subdensely tripinnate, cylindric, 40 cm long, 8 cm in diameter, persistently pale-lepidote; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, exceeding the branches, the upper abruptly reduced to small linear bodies that barely exceed the sterile bases of the branches, entire; branches spreading, few-flowered. Floral bracts linear-subulate from a minute triangular base, shorter than the pedicels, free; pedicels to 6 mm long, 1.5 mm in diameter, terete. Sepals very strongly asymmetric with the lateral wing far exceeding the terminal mucro, 15 mm long, connate below in a cylindrical tube 6 mm long; epigynous tube 3 mm deep. Fruit ellipsoid, 10 mm long.
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Distribution
Brazil South America| Espirito Santo Brazil South America|