Pitcairnia colimensis 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. McVaugh 15509 (holotype, MICH; isotype, US), steep bluffs above Rio Salado, 5 miles south of Colima, Colima, Mexico, 17 Jul 1957.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 45 cm high. Leaves fasciculate in a bulbous rosette; outer sheaths broadly ovate, castaneous, the inner longer and narrower and paler; blades dimorphic, some persistent and reduced to slender flat serrate spines, others foliaceous (inferred from the median scape-bracts), linear, attenuate, deciduous along a straight transverse line, spinose-serrate below the line. Scape erect, slender, at first appressed-tomentose with white finely divided scales; scape-bracts erect, equaling or exceeding the internodes, entire, the lowest vaginiform, lanceolate, acuminate, the median foliaceous, to 3 dm long, 10 mm wide, the upper narrowly triangular, filiform-caudate. Inflorescence simple, laxly few-flowered, tomentose-lepidote when young. Floral bracts narrowly triangular, slightly longer or shorter than the pedicels; pedicels divergent, slender, to 10 mm long. Sepals linear, 20 mm long, acuminate, the posterior broadly alate especially toward apex; petals naked, red; ovary 3/4 superior; ovules caudate.
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Distribution
Deciduous woodlands and open cliffs, 400-600 m alt, Colima, Mexico.
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