Dyckia maritima Baker
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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. Tweedie s n (holotype, K; photo, GH), edges of marsh near sea, without exact locality, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1832.
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Synonyms
Dyckia tomentosa Mez, Prionophyllum maritimum (Baker) Mez
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Description
Description - Flowering over 2 m high. Leaves many in a spreading rosette, ca. 6 dm long; sheaths suborbicular, dark castaneous, glabrous; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, pungent, to 4 cm wide, thick, rigid, glabrous above, minutely pale-lepidote between the nerves beneath with internerves very deep and narrow, very laxly serrate with broad curved spines 3-5 mm long. Scape straight, to, 2 cm in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper narrowly triangular, much reduced. Inflorescence amply tripinnate with branches to 25 cm long, densely tomentose-lepidote; primary bracts inconspicuous; spikes many-flowered, subdense. Floral bracts spreading to reflexed, scarcely 3 mm long, subulate-acuminate from a broad base; flowers perfect and unisexual, suberect to spreading, very short-pedicellate. Sepals broadly ovate, acute, 5 mm long, densely brown-furfuraceous; petals obtuse, 7 mm long; stamens exserted, the filaments free above the very short common tube with the petals; style longer than the ovary. Seed oblong with a narrow lateral wing widened at the ends.
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Distribution
Open rocky or turfy ground, mostly near the sea, 30-50 m alt, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
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