Pitcairnia tillandsioides 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. Hinton 14398 (holotype, GH; isotype, US), cliff in oak forest, Los Barrales-Yesceros, Mina, 1775 m alt, Guerrero, Mexico, 5 Jul 1939.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 12-20 cm high. Leaves few, bulbous-rosulate, all alike (?); sheaths broadly ovate, ca. 15 mm long, dark castaneous, glabrous; blades deciduous along a straight transverse line, obscurely spinose-serrate below the line, above linear-lanceolate, attenuate, slightly contracted at base, to 13 cm long, 8 mm wide, entire, flat, green, sparsely floccose or glabrous. Scape erect, very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, lanceolate, acuminate, shorter or longer than the internodes but not covering the scape. Inflorescence simple, laxly few-flowered, glabrous or subglabrous. Floral bracts like the scape-bracts, exceeding the pedicels; pedicels slender, 6-9 mm long, flowers suberect, resembling those of Tillandsia. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 16-18 mm long, to 8 mm wide, sparsely floccose, the posterior subalate; petals regular, not zygomorphic, 4 cm long, red, naked, the blade elliptic, broadly acute, reflexed toward apex; stamens included; ovary 2/3 superior; ovules caudate.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Mexico North America| Guerrero Mexico North America|