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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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Species
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AECHMEA ANGUSTIFOLIA Poepp. & Endl.
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Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:43. 1837.
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Synonym
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Hoplophytum angustifolium (Poepp. & Endl.) Beer, Bromel. 132. 1857. Hohenbergia angustifolia (Poepp. & Endl.) Baker in Refug. Bot. 4:pl. 284. 1871. Aechmea Cumingii Baker in Jour. Bot. 17:227. 1879. Aechinea boliviana Rusby in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 4:456. 1907. Aechbnea cylindrica Mez in Fedde Rep. Spec. Nov. 12:413. 1913. Aecbnmea inconspicua Harms in Notizbl. 10:786. 1929.
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Description
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Plant to 75 cm. high. Leaves 10-15 in an ellipsoid rosette, 5-7 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, 1 dm. long, densely brown- lepidote; blades ligulate, 3-6 cm. wide, cinereous-lepidote, spinose-serrate. Scape erect, white-flocculose, later glabrous. Scape-bracts elliptic, acute, denticulate, red. Inflorescence dense or lax, bipinnate, cylindric, fertile throughout, 15-36 cm. long. Lowest primary bracts like the scape-bracts, ex- ceeding the spikes, the others abruptly reduced to about the size of the floral bracts, ovate or narrowly triangular, acumi- nate. Spikes spreading or reflexed, distichously 10-flowered, 20-45 mm. long. Rhachis undulate, compressed. Floral bracts spreading, cymbiform, broadly ovate, mucronate, 5 mm. long, barely exceeding the ovary, puberulent. Flowers 12-16 mm. long. Sepals asymmetric, mucronate, free, 4-5 mm. long. Petals linear, mucronate, bearing 2 scales above base. Ovary ellipsoid. Ovules borne at summit of cell, caudate.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: between Maume and Gorgona, Wagner; drowned forest of upper Rio Pequeni between Salamanca Hydrographic Station and Rio Boqueron, alt. 70 m., Allen in hb. Dodge I7272. DARIEN: vicinity of Cana, alt. 1800 m., Williams 845; Cana-Cuasi Trail, Chepigana District, alt. 1200 m., Terry I542.
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