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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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PITCAIRNIA OBLANCEOLATA L. B. Smith
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contrib. Gray Herb. 117:26, pI. 2, fig. 18. 1937.
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Description
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Climbing woody stem averaging over 1 m. long. Leaves few, erect; sheaths broadly ovate, 3-4 cm. long, dark castaneous, covered with a buff membrane of coalesced scales; petiole distinct, stout, channeled, densely serrate with dark spines to 3 mm. long; blades oblanceolate, acute, 85-95 cm. long, 105-125 mm. wide, entire, flat, glabrous or slightly flocculose beneath. Scape erect, stout, 3-4 dm. long. Scape-bracts very densely imbricate, some subfoliaceous, others vaginiform, elliptic, caudate. Inflorescence simple, densely cylindric, 3-8 dm. long, 3-4 cm. thick before anthesis. Floral bracts broadly elliptic, acute or acuminate, 7-8 cm. long, much exceeding the sepals, chartaceous, pink drying to castaneous. Flowers erect or spreading at anthesis. Pedicels stout, to 1 cm. long. Sepals oblanceolate, broadly acute and apiculate, 45 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, thin. Petals 8 cm. long, exceeding the stamens, yellow, bearing a large truncate scale at base.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: epiphytic, summit of Cerro Campana, alt. 800-1000 m., Allen 22I4.
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