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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 NUDICAULIS (L.) Griseb.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 593. 1864.
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Synonym
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Bromelia nudicaulis L. Sp. P1. 286. 1753. Billbergia nudicaulis (L.) Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 13: under pI. I068. 1827. Billbergia pyramidata Beer, Bromel. 123. 1857. Hoplophytum nudicaule (L.) K. Koch in Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1856: App. 6. 1857. Hohenbergia nudicaulis (L.) Baker in Saund. Refug. Bot. under pI. 284. 1871. Pothuava nudicaulis (L.) Regel in Gartenfl. 31:291. 1882.
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Description
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Plant very variable in proportions, 3-7 dm. high. Leaves densely fasciculate, 3-10 dm. long; sheaths large, elliptic, forming an urceolate pseudobulb, purple or castaneous, densely brown-lepidote; blades ligulate, broadly obtuse and apiculate, not constricted at base, 6-10 cm. wide, coriaceous, densely pale-lepidote beneath, armed with coarse black teeth to 4 mm. long. Scape slender, erect or decurved, white-floccose. Scape-bracts imbricate, congested below the inflorescence, elliptic, acute, entire, red. Inflorescence a polystichous-flowered cylindric spike, fertile throughout, 5- 25 cm. long, pale-floccose at first. Floral bracts small or sometimes wanting, entire. Flowers 22 mm. long. Sepals free, very asymmetric, mucronate, 5-10 mm. long. Petals acute, 12 mm. long, yellow, bearing 2 fimbriate scales. Ovary subglobose, the epigynous tube distinct. Ovules short-caudate, borne at the middle of the cell.
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Distribution
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Mexico, Panama, and the West Indies, and a variety in Trinidad and Brazil.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Isla Colon, vicinity of Chiriqui Lagoon, von Wedel 37, ii5, ii66; Water Valley, von Wedel 737.
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