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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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TILLANDSIA MELANOCRATER L. B. Smith
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Contrib. Gray Herb. 117:31. 1937.
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Synonym
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Tillandsia inelanopus E. Morr. ex Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:680. 1896, in part, not as to type.
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Description
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Plant rarely over 25 cm. high, often propagating by scaly branching rhizomes. Leaves very numerous in a subspreading rosette, 15-20 cm. long, densely and finely appressed-lepidote; sheaths broadly ovate, deep castaneous, blades curved, linear- triangular, long-acuminate, pungent, 8 mm. wide, flat. Scape erect or ascending, slender. Scape-bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate, lepidote, at least the lower ones with a linear blade. Inflorescence simple or digitate from a few spikes. Pri- mary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, scarcely longer than the floral bracts. Spikes variable, from narrowly oblong and acute to broadly elliptic and obtuse, 4-9 cm. long, 12-20 mm. wide, complanate with flat sides, often bearing several reduced sterile bracts toward base. Rhachis slender, nearly straight. Floral bracts imbricate but not always concealing the rhachis, ovate, 20-25 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, carinate, coriaceous, even, glabrous or toward apex sparsely lepidote. Flowers subsessile. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 15-19 mm. long, much connate posteriorly. Petals tubular-erect, 30-35 mm. long, violet. Stamens exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, 3 cm. long.
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Distribution
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Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: forests around El Boquete, alt. 1000-1300 m., Pittier 2987; Finca Lerida to Boquete, alt. ca. 1300-1700 m., Woodson, Allen d Seibert II?9; vicinity of El Boquete, alt. 1200-1500 m., Woodson & Schery 807, 8o8. COLON: forests around Porto Bello, alt.5-100 m., Pittier 2473. CANAL ZONE: Las Cascadas Plantation, near Summit, Standley 2956i; westerly arm of Quebrada Salamanca, alt. 70 m., Dodge, Steyermark d Allen I7033; drowned forest of Quebrada Ancha, alt. 70 m., Dodge & Steyermark I7033a.
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