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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 MAGDALENAE (Andre') Andre ex Baker
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PlaceOfPublication
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Handb. Bromel. 65. 1889.
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Synonym
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Chevalliera Magdalenae Andre, Enum. Bromel. 3. 13 Dec. 1888; in Rev. Hortic. 60:563. 16 Dec. 1888. Bromelia Magdalenae (Andre) C. H. Wright in Kew Bull. 1923:267 1923. Ananas magdalenae (Andre) Standl. ex Standl. & Calderon, Lista Prelim. P1. S. Salvador, 45. 1925.
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Description
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Plant about 1 m. high. Leaves several in a laxly crateriform rosette, to 2 m. long; sheaths short and inconspicuous denticulate, covered with minute brown scales; blades linear, acuminate, 5-10 cm. wide, glabrous above, finely pale-lepidote beneath between the nerves, laxly armed with dark uncinate spines up to 5 mm. long; sheaths short and inconspicuous, denticulate, covered with minute brown much exceeding the internodes, the upper ones massed below the inflorescence and reflexed. Inflorescence simple or more often compound from a few subequal heads, compact, broadly pyramidal. Heads sessile, globose, 12 cm. thick. Floral bracts decurved from the middle, ovate with a triangular acuminate pungent apex, to 65 mm. long, coriaceous, thick, densely spinose-serrate, cinereous-lepidote be- neath. Flowers sessile, to 5 cm. long, much compressed dorsally. Sepals asym- metric, narrowly triangular, acuminate, pungent, the anterior one to 38 mm. long, the posterior ones to 35 mm., free, lepidote. Petals 4 cm. long, acute, flavous when dry, bearing 2 minute truncate scales well above base. Ovary broadly elliptic, enlarged in fruit. Ovules borne in upper half of cell.
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Distribution
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Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Carleton 278; Water Valley, von Wedel 7II. CHIRIQUI: vicinity of San Bartolome, Peninsula de Burica, alt. 0-50 m., Woodson d Schery 884. PANAMA: wet forest, Rio Tapia, Standley 26i42; Rio Tecu'men, Standley 26753. CANAL ZONE: along Cafio Quebrado, Pittier 6830; hills north of Frijoles, Standley 276i3; Gamboa, Standley 284ii; near Fort Randolph, Standley 28652; Darien Station, Standley 3I633; Barro Colorado Island, Standley 3I263, Salvoza 869, Aviles I7, Bailey 5i5, Shattuck 117, 420.
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Common
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Pita Pinuela
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Note
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The leaves yield a fiber of good quality.
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