Dyckia odorata 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. Dawson 14578 (holotype, US; isotype, UC), region of the Chapada de Veadeiros, 14° 30' S, 47° 30' W, 5 km west of Veadeiros, Goiás, Brazil, cultivated in the University of California Botanical Garden and prepared 5 Oct 1963 by David Hutt.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 10 cm high. Leaves (separated) 15 cm long; sheaths triangular-ovate, inconspicuous, stramineous, smooth, sublustrous, sparsely lepidote toward apex; blades narrowly triangular, 5 mm wide, covered with white appressed scales on both sides,becoming glabrous above, laxly serrate with pale slender spreading spines 2 mm long. Scape lacking. Inflorescence simple but in 3 parts, a cluster of flowers at the base, the basal part of the raceme (4 cm) with obviously abortive flowers, and the terminal part with apparently well developed flowers, the whole subdensely white-flocculose. Floral bracts broadly ovate, the basal ones with long narrowly triangular serrate blades that exceed the flowers, the highest merely apiculate; pedicels spreading, slender, 3 mm long; flowers 2-merous, "with a very sweet and strong fragrance" (! David Hutt). Sepals suborbicular, very broadly acute and minutely apiculate, 5-6 mm long; petals 10 mm long, orange, short-connate, the blade spreading, broadly rounded; stamens much shorter than the petals, the filaments almost completely connate, the anthers sagittate, curved, 1.5 mm long; ovary slenderly conical, the styles short but obvious and separate.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Goiás Brazil South America| Brazil South America|