Bromeliaceae Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

A new species of racinaea from Peru Scientific and more apiculate, erect with recurving apex, densely cinereous-lepidote; primary-bracts spreading, elliptic, the lower ones like the peduncle-bracts, 2-3 cm long, 0.8-1 cm wide, slightly exceeding or shorter than the stipe, apiculate, densely cinereous lepidote, branches 3-12 cm long, with a stipe of 1.2-3 cm length and without sterile bracts, lower branches divided into 3-6 (the upper less divided) spikes, lax, polystichous; secondary-bracts elliptical, lepidote, 6-8 mm long exceeded by the sterile bases of the spikes. Spikes arching-pendulous, laxly distichously 3-8-flowered, 1-3.5 cm long, 0.6 cm wide, rachis exposed by the bracts, flexuous to geniculate, subterete, internodes 3-5 mm, green, lepidote; stipes 1-1.5 cm long, without sterile bracts, subterete; floralbracts 3-5 mm long, 4,5 mm wide, ovate, apiculate and the apex incurved, in the upper part carinate, densely cinereous-lepidote, much shorter than the sepals, remote to each other, cinereous-green. Flowers subsessile, the lower ones pendulous-secund, corolla yellow; sepals free, 6 mm long, extended 3 mm wide, obovate, asymmetrical, the adaxial ones carinate, obtuse, adaxially glabrous, abaxially densely covered with ferrugineous trichomes, brown to yellow; petals 7 mm long, yellow, spathulate, acute, the blade spreading with recurving apex; stamens basally adnate to the petals; filaments 2-3 mm long, flat, white; anthers sagittate and closely arranged arround the stigma, 1 mm long, yellow; ovary 1.5 mm long, ovoid; style 1 mm long, with a 0.5 mm long stigma. Fruit subcylindric.