Pitcairnia karwinskyana Schult.f.
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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. Karwinsky s n (holotype, M; photo, GH; isotype, M), "In calidis Cristo reipubl. Mexican."
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Synonyms
Pitcairnia jaliscana S.Watson, Hepetis karwinskyana (Schult.f.) Mez
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 2.5-6 dm high. Leaf-sheaths broadly ovate, dark-brown, lustrous, forming a large pseudobulb; leaf-blades dimorphic, some persistent, setiform, brown, armed with numerous retrorse teeth 0.5-1 mm long, others green, deciduous along a straight transverse line, linear, attenuate, 25 cm long, 14 mm wide, thin, glabrous or scantly floccose-lepidote below, only the persistent stub serrate. Scape erect, 3-6 mm in diameter, furfuraceous-lepidote to glabrous; scape-bracts erect, usually imbricate, broadly ovate, acuminate, entire, furfuraceous-lepidote or glabrous. Inflorescence simple, racemose, 1-3 dm long, subdense. Floral bracts erect, ovate, acuminate, 2-4 cm long with the lower ones much exceeded by the sepals, subcoriaceous, sparsely appressed-lepidote to glabrous; flowers erect; pedicels up to 25 mm long, usually angled. Sepals narrowly triangular, attenuate, 25-30 mm long, 5 mm wide, glabrous, all or the posterior ones wing-carinate; petals zygomorphic, linear, obtuse, 5-6 cm long, naked, red, exceeding the stamens, not revolute at anthesis; anthers linear, 8 mm long; ovary almost wholly superior; ovules short-caudate; seeds fusiform, long-caudate at both ends.
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Distribution
Terrestrial, saxicolous, and epiphytic, woods and cliffs, 400-2000 m alt, central and southern Mexico.
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