Pitcairnia oaxacana 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. Reko 3383 (holotype, US), Cafetal Calvario, Oaxaca, Mexico, 18 Aug 1917.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 6 dm high. Leaves all alike, entire, persistent, nearly 7 dm long, subpetiolate; sheaths elliptic, small, pale; blades linear-lanceolate, attenuate, 3 cm wide, thin, glabrous at maturity. Scape erect, 3.5 mm in diameter, sparsely white-floccose, soon glabrous; scape-bracts elliptic, acuminate, all but the lowest remote. Inflorescence simple, lax, rather few-flowered, 9-15 cm long. Floral bracts ovate, acuminate, distinctly shorter than the pedicels, membranaceous; flowers spreading, secund; pedicels slender, up to 9 mm long, sparsely white-floccose. Sepals narrowly oblong, acute, 24 mm long, carinate, soon glabrous, red; petals lingulate, up to 58 mm long, red, bearing a scale at the base; ovary half superior; ovules long-caudate.
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Distribution
Saxicolous, 600 m alt, south central Mexico.
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