Pitcairnia paniculata (Ruiz & Pav.) Ruiz & Pav.
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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. Ruiz & Pavon s n (n v), Chinchao to Macora, Huanuco, Peru.
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Synonyms
Pourretia paniculata Ruiz & Pav., Pitcairnia longifolia (C.Morren) Beer, Pitcairnia excelsa E.Morren, Pitcairnia pulverulenta Baker, Hepetis paniculata (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez, Pitcairnia fruticetorum Mez, Pitcairnia biattenuata Rusby
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 2 m or more high; stem erect, stout, ringed with leaf-scars. Leaves densely fasciculate, dimorphic or trimorphic, the outer ones reduced, scale-like or some with setiform spinose blades, the inner elongate, contracted above the sheath but not always petiolate, attenuate, to 1.5 m long, 35 mm broad, remotely spinulose-serrate or entire toward apex, glabrous above, sparsely furfuraceous beneath. Scape white-furfuraceous; scape-bracts narrowly triangular, filiform-caudate, the uppermost about equaling the internodes. Inflorescence laxly paniculate, pyramidal, 5 dm or longer; axis furfuraceous; primary bracts narrowly triangular, mostly shorter than the sterile bases of the branches; branches suberect to spreading, secundly many-flowered. Floral bracts lance-ovate, acute, much shorter than the pedicels; flowers slender; pedicels 13 mm long. Sepals narrowly trinagular, attenuate, 15-18 mm long, soon glabrous; petals 45 mm long, red, usually appendaged; stamens included; ovary almost wholly superior; ovules caudate.
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Distribution
Terrestrial, thickets and open woods, 300-2800 m alt, Peru and Bolivia.
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