Navia brachyphylla 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. Tate 571 (holotype, NY), ridge northwest of Vegas Brook, Mount Duida, Amazonas, Venezuela, 1-4 Jan 1929.
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Description
Description - Plant caulescent, stems 3-6 dm long. Leaves densely many-ranked, rigid; sheaths small, pale brown, sparsely fine-lepidote, subscarious; blades narrowly triangular, 5 cm long, 4.5 mm wide, green with a dark brown margin, densely and minutely denticulate, glabrous above, minutely appressed-lepidote beneath, soon glabrous. Inflorescence densely capituliform, immersed in the center of the terminal leaf-rosette, 1 cm in diameter. Floral bracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, 12 mm long, membranaceous, pale brown, minutely brown-lepidote at apex; flowers with short stout pedicels. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, almost exactly like the floral bracts, 10-11 mm long, sparsely and finely brown-lepidote at apex, the two lateral ones strongly conduplicate and enclosing the nearly flat abaxial sepal; petals yellow, to 18 mm long, connate into a tube below, blade obovate; style and stamens included.
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Distribution
Terrestrial, 1320-1980 m alt, Amazonas, Venezuela.
Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America|