Pitcairnia marnier-lapostollei 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. Marnier-Lapostolle s n (holotype, US), Peru, without locality, cultivated at Jardin Botanique "Les Cèdres," St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering ca 3 dm high. Leaves rosulate; blades dimorphic, some reduced to slender dark spines, others foliaceous, deciduous, linear, attenuate, ca 5 dm long and 20 mm wide (! photo), green on both sides, entire at least above the line of abscission. Scape straight, slender, sparsely white-flocculose; scape-bracts strict, imbricate but slightly exposing the scape, ovate, attenuate, pectinate-serrate with dark spines. Inflorescence simple, densely ellipsoid, few-several-flowered. Floral bracts erect, straight, ovate, acuminate, much exceeded by the sepals, sparsely white-flocculose; flowers subsessile, erect. Sepals triangular-ovate, attenuate, 36 mm long, the posterior ones alate-carinate; petals 8 cm long, linear, acute, naked, red, about equaling the erect stamens but recoiling and exposing them; ovary 4/5 superior; ovules caudate.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
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