Pitcairnia lepidopetalon 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. Foster 2187 (holotype, GH), moist places, Barbacoas, Río Ñambi, 450 m alt, Nariño, Colombia, 16 Nov 1946.
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Description
Description - Plants in large masses, the flowering shoot about 1 m high. Leaves subdistichous, about equaling the inflorescence, entire; sheaths narrow, dark castaneous, sparsely and obscurely brown-lepidote; blades linear, not petiolate, long-attenuate, 1 cm wide. Scape erect, 5 mm in diameter, sparsely pale-floccose, soon glabrous. Inflorescence simple, lax, rather few-flowered, to 32 cm long; rhachis slightly flexuous. Floral bracts broadly ovate, acuminate, slightly exceeding the pedicels; flowers erect or slightly divergent; pedicels slender, to 2 cm long, sparsely lepidote. Sepals oblong, truncate with a black apiculus, 42 mm long, sparsely lepidote, the exposed part bright red, the covered part yellow; petals linear, attenuate, 7 cm long, red, sparsely pale-lepidote outside, bearing a ligule at base; stamens included; ovary 2/3 superior; ovules obtuse.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America|