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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 BERTERONIANA (Schultes) Mez
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PlaceOfPublication
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DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:621. 1896.
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Synonym
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Renealmia pendula Gaertn. Fruct. 3:13. 1805, non Catopsis pendula Bak. 1889. Tillandsia pendula Thunb. ex Gaertn. Fruct. 3:13. 1805Tillandsia Berteroniana Schultes in R. & S. Syst. Veg. 7:1221. 1830. Pogospermum Berteronianum (Schultes) Brongn. in Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 1:328. 1864. Catopsis Mosenii Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:622. 1896. Catopsis nutans sensu L. B. Smith in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 24:180. 1937, non Griseb. 1864.
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Description
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Plant 4-9 dm. high. Leaves several in a subfasciculate rosette, to 4 dm. long, densely white-cretaceous especially toward base, light green; sheaths about as long as the blades, elliptic; blades triangular, acute, 4-5 cm. wide. Scape erect, 5-10 mm. thick, soon glabrous. Scape-bracts erect, the lower foliaceous and densely imbricate, the upper broadly ovate, apiculate, often shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence bipinnate or rarely simple, to 3 dm. long. Primary bracts mostly shorter than the sterile base of the spike, broadly ovate, apiculate. Spikes suberect, long-stipitate, rather laxly many-flowered. Floral bracts broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long, coriaceous. Flowers perfect, suberect. Sepals strongly asymmetric, obovate, to 12 mm. long and 9 mm. wide, equaling or exceeding the petals, coriaceous. Petals ovate-elliptic, white. Stamens unequal. Style distinct, one third as long as ovary. Capsule stoutly ellipsoid, barely ex- ceeding the sepals.
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Distribution
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Southern Florida, Greater Antilles, Guatemala, Panama, Trinidad, British Guiana, eastern Brazil.
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Specimen
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COCLE: western slope and summit of Cerro Valle Chiquito, alt. 700-800 m., Seibert 646; vicinity of El Valle, alt. 100-800 m., Allen 738.
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Elevation
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100-800 m.
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