Vriesea joyae
Pereira & Penna n. sp.
Subgenus Vriesea Section Vriesea
.
Plant
: epiphytic ,
flowering about 35 cm high.
Leaves
: ligulate, membranaceous, about 25 cm long, lightly
contracted over the sheaths, forming a crateriform tank at the bases.
Sheaths : elliptic, about 8 cm long, 6 cm wide, minutely bruneo-lepidote and
green at both sides.
Blades
: sub-linear, about 18 cm long, 3 cm maximum width,
narrowly acuminate to apex, green, glabrous at both sides.
Scape
: erect, green, shorter than the leaves, 17 cm long.
Scape
bracts : narrowly ovate, apex rotundate, mucronate,
green, equaling the size of the
internodes, completely encircling the scape.
Inflorescence
: simple, very
complanate, 13 cm long, 5 cm wide, sub-elliptic, sub-acute apex, about
15 flowers, bearing 2 to 3 sterile bracts.
Rachys : straight.
Floral
bracts : when expanded, broadly ovate, apiculate,
about 50 mm long, 35 mm wide, very
imbricate, red, very carinate,
lightly incurved, never secund, equaling
the corolla .
Flowers
: erect, 6 cm long, lightly secund at anthesis.
Pedicels : 3 mm long.
Sepals
: free, 20 mm long, 6 mm wide, oblong, obtuse,
glabrous, yellowish, obtusely carinate.
Petals
: linear, rotundate apex, 50 mm long, 7 mm wide, light
yellow, green apex, bearing 2 entire scales at base.
Stamens : exserted, 55 mm long.
Style
: 50 mm long, surpassing the anthers.
Stigma
: green.
Ovary
: 5 mm long, pyramidal.
Typus
: Brazil, Rio
de Janeiro State, Angra dos Reis,
Ribeira bay, collected by Luiz
K. Correia de Araujo, nš 36 and Joy Enete, on the 25th February
1982. Holotypus at the Herbarium Bradeanum HB .
Comments
: this new species is related to Vriesea
erythrodactylon (E. Morren) E.
Morren ex Mez , differing in its broadly ovate and short apiculate floral bracts,
wholly bright red, and short sepals, not exceeding 20 mm .
Published : in Bradea, Herbarium Bradeanumīs bulletin,
volume
IV, nš 19, 26th March 1985, Pg. 135,
figure 1,
Pg.
136.
Complementary comments : after many years cultivating original collection plants, we lost them, and only color photos of part of the inflorescence and original drawings were preserved and presented here.