Dyckia insignis Hassl.
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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. Fiebrig 4615 (holotype, G; photo 8448, F), Centurion, northern Paraguay.
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Synonyms
Dyckia insignis Hassl., Dyckia insignis var. macrantha Hassl., Dyckia insignis Hassl., Dyckia grandiflora Mez
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 3-4 dm high, the base bulbous from dead leaf-sheaths, 6-8 long. Leaves 20-35 cm long; sheaths broad, glabrous, brown and lustrous beneath; blades linear-triangular, filiform-attenuate, 15 mm wide, covered on both sides with whitish appressed scales, laxly serrate with spreading or ascending acicular spines 3 mm long. Scape 30-60 cm long, slender, striate, glabrous; scape-bracts long-acuminate from a triangular-ovate base, serrate like the leaves, the lower 6-7 cm long, exceeding the internodes, the upper 2 cm long, shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence simple, lax, 3-7-flowered, more or less lepidote including the petals; lower floral bracts like the upper scape-bracts, the upper triangular-ovate, filiform-attenuate, shorter, entire; pedicels 7-11 mm long; flowers erect to spreading. Sepals oblong-ovate, obtuse, 10-12 mm long, finely fimbriate-serrulate; petals erect, 22-28 mm long, elliptic-oblong, subacute or obtuse, red to flavous, the common tube with the stamens less than 1 mm high; stamens 10 mm longer than the petals, free above the common tube; anthers linear, subsagittate at base, strongly recurved; ovary conic, 10 mm high; style single, 25 mm long, divided near apex. Capsule stout ovoid, long-beaked, 20 mm long, 14 mm in diameter; seeds 4 mm long, bearing a dorsal falciform hyaline wing.
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Distribution
Dry open rocky ground, northern Paraguay.
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