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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 DACTYLINA Baker
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Jour. Bot. 17:161. 1879.
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Description
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Plant over 8 din. high. Leaves 5-14 dm. long; sheaths very large, elliptic, pale-punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acute, pungent, 45-75 mm. wide, rigid, pale green, serrate with spreading spines up to 1 cm. long. Scape erect, to 1 cm. thick, white-flocculose at first. Scape-bracts erect, imbricate, elliptic, acute or acuminate, entire, pale green or the upper ones red. Inflorescence amply paniculate, subthyrsoid, 25-60 cm. long. Axes angular, white- arachnoid. Primary bracts spreading or reflexed, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the branches, bright red, sparsely lepidote or glabrous. Branches divergent to spreading, the lower ones usually divided and bearing 2-8 spikes, to 25 cm. long. Spikes linear, acute, 5-16 cm. long, 10-16 mm. wide, complanate, distichous-flowered. Floral bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 14-17 mm. long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, mucronulate with free entire margins, sharply carinate toward apex, coriaceous, glabrous, finely nerved near margin. Flowers sessile, 17 mm. long. Sepals lanceolate, acute, alate, 7-8 mm. long, connate for 1 mm. Petals lingulate, acute, yellow. Stamens included. Ovary angled, glabrous, the epigynous tube short. Ovules few, borne at top of cell, caudate.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Western River, vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 2787. COLON: Chagres, Fendler 450. COCLE: Bismark, above Penonome, alt. 600-900 m., Williams 630. CANAL ZONE: near Salamanca Hydrographic Station on the gorge of the Rio Pequeni, alt. 70-80 m., Dodge, Steyermarkl & Allen 16976a; westerly arm of Quebrada Salamanca, alt. 70 m., Dodge, Steyermarkl & Allen 17039.
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Elevation
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70-80 m.
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