Navia duidae 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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Description
Description - Plant strongly caulescent, 9 cm high. Leaves crowded along the stem and stiffly spreading, 9 cm long; sheaths submembranaceous, almost orbicular; blades narrowly linear, attenuate, pungent, 3 mm wide, finely and remotely serrate with teeth less than 0.5 mm long and fully 2 mm apart, glabrous above. Inflorescence simple, capitate, sessile at the end of the stem and obscured by the top leaves. Floral bracts lanceolate, acute, about equaling the sepals, entire, membranaceous, lepidote toward apex. Sepals free, ovate, acute, carinate, strongly compressed, membranaceous, 12 mm long; petals white, much longer than the sepals, their blades broad and spreading (?); stamens and style exserted (?); ovary slenderly ovoid, superior.