Neoregelia
sapiatibensis Pereira & Penna n. sp.
Subgenus Neoregelia
Plant
: flowering about 40 cm high, stoloniferous,
about
40 cm long stolons.
Leaves
: many, about 35 cm long, ligulate, ridgid, forming a
crateriform rosete at the bases, 12 cm long.
Sheaths : sub-elliptic, about 8 cm long, 5 cm maximum width, white on both
sides, with brunneo-lepidote spots.
Blades
: sub-linear, about 27 cm long, 4 cm maximum width,
acute and apiculate apex , from green to reddish on both sides, superiorly
inconspicuously lepidote and inferiorly densely albo-lepidote punctate; margin
densely spinous, spines not greater than 1 mm long, antrorse, dark purple, with
3 mm between them.
Scape : 30 mm long, 7 mm diameter
Scape
bracts : foliaceous, serrulate, very apiculate, white,
with brunneo-lepidote points on both sides.
Involucral
bracts : 35 mm long, ovate, acute and apiculate,
membranaceous, from green to reddish, entire, finely nerved.
Inflorescence
: simple, sub-globose, complanate apex, 30 mm
diameter.
.Floral
bracts : narrowly lanceolate, 30 mm long, 8 mm wide, green to reddish,
entire, lightly carinate to apex, spiny apex, reaching the middle of the
sepals.
Flowers : including pedicels, 40 to 50 mm long.
Pedicels : 5 to 10 mm long, white.
Sepals
: lightly asymmetric, 20 mm long, lanceolate, shortly
acuminate, 2 mm connate, glabrous, reddish in the inferior half and green in
the superior half.
Petals
: 32 mm long, 3 mm connate, superior lobule 10 mm
long, ovate, violaceous, open at the anthesis.
Stamens : 20 mm long, filaments complanate, 6 mm adnate to the petals, white.
Anthers : lanceolate, 4 mm long, apiculate, obtuse-sagittate, dorsifixed over
the base.
Ovary
: cylindrical, 10 mm long, white.
Epigynic
tube : 1.5 mm long.
Placentae
: fixed in the middle of the locules.
Ovules : obtuse.
Typus
: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro State, Barra de São
João,
collected by Luiz K. Correia de Araujo, nº 40, on the 26th September 1982, Holotypus at the Herbarium Bradeanum HB . São Pedro da Aldeia, Morro Sapiatiba,
300 meters above sea level, collected by Elton M. C. Leme, nº 444, on the
23th February 1983, Paratypus at the Herbarium Bradeanum
HB.
Comments
: this species is near Neoregelia farinosa (Ule) L.B. Smith , but differs in its
floral bracts laceolate and much smaller,
short pedicels, sepals shortly acuminate and almost symmetrical , and narrowly
elliptical sheaths.
Published
: in Bulletin nº 62, February 1985, from the Municipal
Botanical Museum of Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil, Pg. 2 and 3, figure 2, Pg.
7 .
Complementary
comments : we have many plants from the original Luiz K.
Correia de Araujo collection in cultivation and we are adding drawings and
color photos of these plants.