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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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THECOPHYLLUM IRAZUENSE Mez & Werckle
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3:138. 1903.
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Description
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Stemless, 7-10 dm. or higher. Leaves many, rosulate, erect, up to 4 dm. long; sheaths large, densely and minutely pale-lepidote, dark red-brown at base; blades subligulate, acute, 4-7 cm. wide, reddish violet, very densely marked with faint wavy transverse lines, apex recurved. Scape stout, glabrous. Scape-bracts erect, involute, exceeding the internodes, ovate-elliptic, caudate, subinflated. Inflores- cence dense, slenderly cylindric, 15-30 cm. long, 4-6 cm. thick, glabrous. Primary bracts reflexed with spirally revolute apex, like the scape-bracts, the lower ones longer than the flowers. Branches very short or wholly aborted. Floral bracts suborbicular or reniform, 8-15 mm. long, obtuse, scarcely carinate, thin. Flowers 2 in each axil. Sepals broadly elliptic, 15-20 mm. long, 10-15 mm. wide, thick, coriaceous, free.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: rain forest, Bajo Chorro, Boquete District, alt. 1800 m., Davidson 281.
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