Pitcairnia xanthocalyx Mez
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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. Karwinsky in Munich Hortus s n (holotype, M; photo, US), 1848.
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Synonyms
Pitcairnia sulphurea K.Koch, Pitcairnia flavescens Baker, Hepetis xanthocalyx (Mart.) Mez
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering to 13 dm high. Leaves all alike, 1 m long or more, entire or very sparsely and minutely spinose, scarcely petiolate; sheaths suborbicular, small, brown, prominently nerved, covered with a membrane of scale; blades linear or linear-lanceolate, filiform-attenuate, 2-3 cm wide, glabrous above, covered beneath with a membrane of whitish scales. Scape erect, to 7 mm in diameter, slightly floccose; scape-bracts erect, subfoliaceous, all exceeding the internodes. Inflorescence simple, laxly polystichous-flowered, 3-6 dm long, soon glabrous. Floral bracts linear-lanceolate, the lower ones much exceeding the pedicels; pedicels slender, 15-20 mm long; flowers spreading. Sepals subtriangular, broadly acute or obtuse, 15-20 mm long, orange, often floccose-lepidote at the apex; petals 45-50 mm long, appendaged, pale-yellow; ovary half superior; ovules long-caudate.
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Distribution
Central Mexico.
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