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9599 - Bromeliads (Garden) - 2011-11-28
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Pitcairnia cf. abundans
(Uploaded as: Pitcairnia )
Locality: Mexico - Oaxaca -
Photographer: Andy Siekkinen
Note: Night blooming, light fragrance that is slightly acrid/putrid. Petals are ~7cm long. Leaves deciduous, abaxial surface lepidote, over 50cm long, ~25mm wide, few spines near base. (Sent: brom-l@science.uu.nl)
Identification: solved
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- Identification (9602): HEL (2011-11-28) =Sure its not from S Venzuela?
- Looks like a Pepinia bulbosa or rel. (Sent: brom-l@science.uu.nl)
- Add Note (9602): Andy Siekkinen (2011-11-29) - Definitely from Oaxaca. (Sent: brom-l@science.uu.nl)
- Identification (9600): Walter Till (2011-11-29) =Pitcairnia cf. abundans
- Fits quite well this species. See also Polibotánica 23: 93-100 (2007)
- Add Note (9610): Eric Gouda (2011-11-29) - In some ways it resembles Pitcairnia abundans, on the other hand Pitcairnia abundans has a very typical undulate petal apex that looks very odd in the flower buds that are already divergent and it must have dimorphic leaves. This specimen much resembles the P.bulbosa like ones form the Guiayana schield
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