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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 APICROIDES (Schlecht. & Chain.) Baker
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PlaceOfPublication
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Jour. Bot. 25:174. 1887.
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Synonym
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Tillandsia apicroides Schlecht. & Cham. in Linnaea 6:55. 1831. Tussacia apicroides (Schlecht. & Cham.) Beer, Bromel. 263. 1857. ?Catopsis Schindleri Mez & Werckle in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 4:1124. 1904?Catopsis tennis Cufodontis in Archivio Bot. 9:181. 1933.
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Description
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Plant 12-45 cm. high with the inflorescence extended. Leaves few in a cyathiform rosette, usually 10-15 cm. long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote; sheaths elliptic, often as long as the blades but only slightly wider; blades ligulate, 10-25 mm. wide, the outer often acute, the inner always rounded and apiculate. Scape suberect or decurved, 1-1.5 mm. thick, glabrous. Scape-bracts remote, erect, involute, elliptic, apiculate. Inflorescence laxly bipinnate or rarely the lower branches divided, pyramidal. Axis flexuous to geniculate. Primary bracts like the scape-bracts, barely exceeding the short sterile naked base of the branch. Branches ascending, laxly many-flowered. Rhachis straight, very slender. Floral bracts ovate, 3-4 mm. long, equaling or shorter than the sepals. Flowers dioecious, spreading or subspreading. Sepals asymmetric, broadly elliptic, thin, to 4.5 mm. long. Petals elliptic, obtuse, 6 mm. long. Stamens very unequal in the male flowers. Ovary ovoid. Style short.
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico to Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, von Wedel 1374; Old Bank Island, von Wedel 2109; Little Bocas, von Wedel 2527; Peach Creek, von Wedel 2652; Western River, von Wedel 278i. CANAL ZONE: vicinity of Fort Sherman, Standley 31I; drowned forest of Quebrada Ancha, Steyermark & Allen.
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