Distribution
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Distribucion en Costa Rica: Cordillera de Guanacaste, Cordillera de Tilarán, San Ramón, Cordillera Central, Parque Nacional Tapantí, Valle del Reventazón, Cordillera de Talamanca y cerros de Tarrazú, a una elevación entre (100)700 y 1900 m.
Distribucion General: De Nicaragua a Bolivia y Perú.
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Diagnostic Description
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Epífitas o terrestres, caulescentes. Hojas de 60 a 110 cm., subcartáceas. Pecíolos de 16 a 57 cm., espinoso-serrados. Láminas de 4 a 10.5 cm. de ancho, enteras, glabras, oblanceoladas, acuminadas. Escapo de 60 a 93 cm., de erecto-curvado a inclinado. Brácteas más largas que los entrenudos. Inflorescencia de suberecta a curvado-erecta, de 24 a 55 (62) cm., simple. Brácteas florales de 2 a 3.2 cm., rojizas, de crema a verde-crema, más largas que los sépalos, enteras, agudas, de descomposición rápida después de la antesis. Flores pediceladas, con pedicelos de 0.4 a 0.8 cm., usualmente dispuestas unilateralmente. Sépalos de 2.4 a 3.6 cm., subcoriáceos, glabros. Pétalos anaranjados, con apéndices. Ovario de 1/2 ínfero o menor. Se reconoce por sus flores anaranjadas, con los pedicelos inferiores a 1 cm.
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- J. Francisco Morales
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- Fabiana Murillo.
Diagnostic Description
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Localidad del tipo: Bolivia: La Paz: Yungas
Depositario del tipo: HT: US; IT: NY
Recolector del tipo: Bang (592)
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- J. Francisco Morales
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- Fabiana Murillo.
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pitcairnia brittoniana Mez, in DC. Monog. Phaii. 9: 451. 1896
Hepetis Brittoniana Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 973. 1896. Pitcairnia flavifiora Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 17: 247. 1927.
Terrestrial or epiphytic, caulescent, 1-1.5 m. high; leaves over 1 m. long; sheaths ovatetriangular, small and inconspicuous, densely tomentose-lepidote, sparsely serrate toward the apex; petioles 15-40 cm. long, coarsely spinose-serrate; blades broadly oblanceolate, acute, 95 mm. wide, entire, soon glabrous; inflorescence 3-6 dm. long, dense, secund-flowered ; axis sparsely and finely browntomentose-lepidote; floral bracts ovate, acute, much shorter than the sepals, thin and soon disintegrating; flowers secund-spreading; pedicels up to 8 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. in diameter; sepals lanceolate, acuminate with an involute uncinate apex, more or less asymmetric, 30-35 mm. long, ecarinate, thick, coriaceous, dark-red, sparsely tomentose-lepidote toward the apex; petals ligulate, broadly obtuse, 4 cm. long, orange, bearing 2 narrow obliquely attached scales near the base; stamens and pistil included; ovary slightly more than half superior; ovules long-caudate.
Type locality: Bolivia.
Distribution: Costa Rica; also in Bolivia.
- bibliographic citation
- Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Pitcairnia brittoniana: Brief Summary
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Pitcairnia brittoniana is a plant species in the genus Pitcairnia. This species is native to Bolivia, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ecuador.
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Pitcairnia brittoniana: Brief Summary
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Italian
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Pitcairnia brittoniana (Mez) Mez, 1935 è una pianta appartenente alla famiglia delle Bromeliaceae.
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Pitcairnia brittoniana: Brief Summary
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Pitcairnia brittoniana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bromeliaceae. Loài này được (Mez) Mez miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1935.
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Bài viết liên quan đến phân họ dứa Pitcairnioideae này vẫn còn sơ khai. Bạn có thể giúp Wikipedia bằng cách mở rộng nội dung để bài được hoàn chỉnh hơn. 
