Pitcairnia mooreana 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. Moore 5117 (holotype, US; isotype, BH), steep grassy slopes and narrow ravine with open pine woods and scattered oaks on granite soil at km 339-40 between Acahuizotla and Agua del Obispo on the highway to Acapulco, 900 m alt, Guerrero, Mexico, 30 Sep 1949.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 7 dm high. Leaves in a dense pseudobulb, probably dimorphic but only the inner known; sheaths suborbicular, 4 cm long, brown lustrous and glabrous except for the cinereous-lepidote apex; blades deciduous along a straight transverse line, linear, attenuate, 46 cm long, 10 mm wide, entire, glabrous, the persistent base of the blade cinereous-lepidote and armed with slender dark curved spines. Scape erect, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, the lower with elongate linear serrate blades, the upper ovate, acute, shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence laxly racemose, glabrous. Floral bracts broadly ovate, apiculate, shorter than the pedicels, green; pedicels slender, 15 mm long; flowers ascending at anthesis, later reflexed. Sepals lance-oblong, acute, 24 mm long, ecarinate; petals 7 cm long, reddish green, naked, equaling the stamens; ovary 2/3 superior; ovules caudate.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Mexico North America| Guerrero Mexico North America|