Pitcairnia modesta 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. Paxson, Webster & Barkley 17-M-819 (holotype, TEX; isotype, US), 25 miles south of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico, 16 Aug 1947.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 9 dm high. Leaves many in a dense pseudobulb; sheaths suborbicular, dark brown, sublustrous, glabrous; blades dimorphic, some reduced to dark brown flat retrorsely serrate spines, others green, deciduous along a straight transverse line, serrate below the line, unknown above but presumably like the larger scape-bracts. Scape erect, ca 1 cm in diameter at base, densely brown-floccose; scape-bracts imbricate, ovate, becoming glabrous, the lowest few with small spinose serrate blades, the central ones with large linear attenuate entire green blades 12 mm wide, the highest with long almost filiform blades. Inflorescence simple, subdense, 3 dm long; rhachis slender, flexuous, densely ferruginous-lanate. Floral bracts ovate, acuminate, to 6 cm long, soon glabrous; pedicels arching, ca 15 mm long, lanate; flowers secund, reflexed. Sepals ovate, acuminate, 35 mm long, densely ferruginous-lanate, the posterior subcarinate; petals at least 10 cm long, naked; ovary more than 4/5 superior; ovules caudate.
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Distribution
Rocky slope among pine and cacti, type region.
México Mexico North America| Guerrero Mexico North America|