Neoregelia
camorimiana Pereira & Penna n. sp.
Subgenus Neoregelia .
Plant
: flowering about 35 cm high, stoloniferous, stolons
about 12 cm long, 1 cm diameter,
Leaves
: about 15, ligulate, rosulate, forming a crateriform
tank at the bases, not constricted, rigid, all purplish, red on the inner bases
of the central leaves near the inflorescence.
Sheaths : ovate, about 9 cm long, purplish and albo-lepidote on both sides.
Blades
: sub-erect, sub-linear, about 25 cm long, 4 cm
maximum width, apex sub-rotundate and very apiculate, with a soft apicule,
superior side glabrous and inferior side with albo-lepidote dots and dark
purple blotches; margins sparsely spinose, spines 10 mm distant, dark purple.
Scape
: 30 mm long, 8 mm diameter.
Scape
bracts : ovate, acuminate, serrulate and white.
Involucral
bracts : sub-triangular, membranaceous, entire,
white-apiculate.
Inflorescence
: simple, corymbose, sub-globose, complanate at apex,
45 mm long, 30 mm diameter.
Floral
bracts : 34 mm long, 8 mm wide, linear, translucent,
entire, rosy at apex, glabrous, ecarinate, rotundate and mucronulate at apex,
equaling the middle of the sepals.
Flowers
: 50 mm long, including the pedicels.
Pedicels
: 8 mm long.
Sepals : 20 mm long, obovate, apiculate, 20 mm connate, asymmetric, glabrous,
red to apex.
Petals : 30 mm long, 20 mm connate, triangular, acute, violaceous at apex,
open at anthesis.
Stamens
: 18 mm long, filaments very complanate, 12 mm adnate
to the petals, white.
Anthers : lanceolate, apiculate, obtuse sagittate at the base, dorsifixed over
the base.
Ovary
: cylindrical, 18 mm long, white.
Epigynous
tube : 2 mm long.
Placentae : fixed in the middle of the locules.
Ovules : apiculate.
Typus
: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro City,
Jacarepaguá, Camorim, collected by Luiz K. Correia de Araujo, nº 46, on the
18th January 1983. Holotypus at Herbarium Bradeanum HB
.
Comments
: this species is very similar to Neoregelia indecora (Mez)
L. B .Smith , differing chiefly by the leaf blades blotched with purple,
no red apical blotch and linear floral
bracts reaching the middle of the sepals.
Published : in Bulletin nº 62, February
1985, from the Municipal aaabotanical Museum of Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil, Pg. 2, figure 2, Pg. 6 .
Complementary
comments : we have a lot of plants from the original collection, flowering every year,
and, when receiving direct sun light,
they show a dark red color, almost brown, contrasting with the red bases of the
central leaves, near the central inflorescence. We are adding drawings and
color photos of these plants.