Pitcairnia occidentalis 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. Cuatrecasas 19849 (holotype, VALLE; photo, US), basin of the Río Dagua, western slope of the Cordillera Occidental, 39-60 m alt, Valle, Colombia, 14 Nov 1945.
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Description
Description - Plant caulescent; flowering shoot 42 cm high; stem 4 mm in diameter, covered with roots and old leaf-bases. Leaves all alike, fascicled at the apex of the stem, 5-6 dm long, entire, 30 mm wide, sparsely and very obscurely brown-lepidote beneath, glabrous above; sheaths small, ovate, petioles short but distinct; blades linear-lanceolate with a strong narrow median channel, flat, caudate-attenuate, to 30 mm wide. Scape erect, very slender, brown-flocculose; scape-bracts large, all but the uppermost exceeding the internodes, but divergent and very narrow so that the scape is completely exposed. Inflorescence simple, very laxly 6-flowered, 12 cm long, sparsely and obscurely flocculose when young. Floral bracts ovate, acute, exceeding the 7 mm pedicels, thin; flowers secund, orange. Sepals broadly oblong, rounded and apiculate, 30 mm long, ecarinate, thin; petals naked; ovary largely superior.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America|