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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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CATOPSIS SESSILIFLORA (R. & P.) Mez
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DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:625. 1896.
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Synonym
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Tillandsia sessiliflora R.- & P. Fl. Peruv. 3:42. 1802. Tussacia sessiliflora (R. & P.) Beer. Bromel. 101. 1857. Pogospermum sessiliflorum (R. & P.) Brongn. in Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 1:328. 1864. Catopsis nutans var. erecta Wittm. in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 11:71. 1889. Catopsis modesta Fritz Mifller in Gartenfl. 42:717. 1893.
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Description
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Plant 1-3 dm. high. Leaves 4-13 in a tubular rosette, 8-20 cm. long, obscure- ly lepidote; sheaths inconspicuous, about as long as the blades but scarcely wider; blades curving outward, ligulate, rounded and apiculate, 12-25 mm. wide, flat, nar- rowly scarious-margined. Scape erect, slender, glabrous. Scape - bracts erect, much shorter than the internodes, broad- ly elliptic, apiculate. Inflorescence simple or compound from a few spikes, lax, to 11 cm. long, glabrous. Primary bracts like the scape-bracts, 7-8 mm. long, much shorter than the naked sterile base of. the spikes. Spikes divergent, 2-9 cm. long, laxly flowered. Floral bracts broad- ly ovate, obtuse, much exceeded by the sepals, thin, nerved. Flowers suberect, perfect. Sepals asymmetric, suborbicular, 7-8 mm. long, subchartaceous, nerved, wrinkled when dry. Petals lance-ovate, barely exserted, white. Stamens unequal. Ovary ovoid. Style very short. Capsule ovoid, distinctly short-beaked, 12 mm. long.
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Distribution
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West Indies and southern Mexico to southern Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, von Wedel 643; Peach Creek, vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 2653; Western River, vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 2788. CANAL ZONE: vicinity of Fort Sherman, Standley 3Iii0; Barro Colorado Island, Standley 40855, Shattuck 604, Woodworth c& Vestal 594, Aviles i8b; westerly arm of Quebrada Salamanca, alt. 70 m., Dodge, Steyermark d Allen I703I; drowned forest of Quebrada Ancha, alt. 70 m., Steyermark d Allen. INDEFINITE: Cowell 4I3.
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