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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 NUTANS (Sw.) Griseb.
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Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 599. 1864.
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Synonym
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Tillandsia nutans Sw. Prodr. 56. 1788. Tillandsia vitellina Lk., Ki. & Otto, Ic. P1. Rar. 101. 1843. Tussacia vitellina (Lk., Ki. & Otto) Ki. ex Beer, Bromel. 99. 1857. Pogospermum flavum Brongn. in Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 1:328. 1864. Pogospermum nutans (Sw.) Brongn. 1. c. 1864. Catopsis fulgens Griseb. in Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Gott. 1864:21. 1865. Catopsis vitellina (Lk., Kl. & Otto) Baker in Jour. Bot. 25:176. 1887.
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Description
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Plant 14-40 cm. high. Leaves about 10 in a subfasciculate rosette, to 24 cm. long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote, white-cretaceous especially toward base; sheaths elliptic, about half as long as the blades; blades subtriangular, acu- minate, 25 mm. -wide. Scape usually decurved, slender. Scape-bracts erect, lanceolate or elliptic, acuminate, typ- ically much shorter than the inter- nodes. Inflorescence simple or rarely few-branched. Primary bracts like the scape-bracts, shorter than the sterile naked base of the spike. Spikes laxly 3- to 15-flowered, to 2 dm. long. Rhachis nearly or quite straight, an- gled, glabrous. Floral bracts broadly ovate or elliptic, obtuse or broadly acute, the lower ones barely shorter than the sepals, the upper much shorter. Flowers perfect, erect to spreading. Sepals strongly asymmetric, broadly elliptic, obtuse, 15 mm. long, submembranaceous, nerved, glabrous. Petals ligulate with flaring blade, 2 cm. long, broadly acute or obtuse, bright yellow. Stamens unequal. Ovary ovoid, stout. Style very short but distinct. Capsule ovoid, long-beaked, 15-20 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Greater Antilles, Vera Cruz to Panama Venezuela and Ecuador.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Las Cascadas Plantation, near Summit, Standley 25763, 29671, 29697; near Madden Dam- and along Azote Caballo Road near Alahuela, alt. 90-100 m., Dodge 16585.
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