Pitcairnia micropoda 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 936 (holotype, US), on cliffs, Puerto Salitre, Temascaltepec, 1300 m alt, Mexico State, Mexico, 7 Feb 1932.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 16 cm high. Leaves bulbous-rosulate, evidently all alike; sheaths ovate, ca 3 cm long, dark castaneous at least toward apex, entire; blades deciduous, unknown above the abscission line, the base 7 mm wide, pale-lepidote beneath, spinose-serrate. Scape very short, hidden by the leaf-bases; scape-bracts densely imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate. Inflorescence simple, sublax, glabrous; axis slender. Floral bracts ovate, acuminate, to 28 mm long, much exceeding all the pedicels, entire, thin; flowers secund, subspreading at anthesis; pedicels slender, subterete, to 6 mm long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 24 mm long, alate-carinate; petals 35 mm long, naked, red; ovary more than ½ superior.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Mexico North America| México Mexico North America|