Puya lineata
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The inflorescence of the Puya lineata |
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The Puya lineata is a species of the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae). Their home is the Colombian departments of Magdalena and Cundinamarca . There it grows in the thicket in the damp shade at altitudes between 2,400 and 3,470 meters.
description
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Puya lineata grows terrestrially as a xerophytic , perennial plant . It reaches a height of 40 to 80 centimeters and is one of the smaller Puya species. A basal leaf rosette is formed. The tough, stiffly protruding, parallel- veined leaves run into a sharp point, have a length of 30 to 60 centimeters and a width of 0.8 to 2.2 centimeters. The dark brown leaf sheath is about 4 inches wide. The leaf margin is reinforced with narrow, hooked, light brown thorns about 0.2 to 0.4 cm long. The leaf is initially densely scaled ash-gray; later the top is smooth.
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Only after a few years is a simple, cone-shaped, blunt, paniculate inflorescence formed on an upright, initially woolly hairy inflorescence stem , which has a length of 10 to 30 centimeters and a diameter of 3.5 to 6 centimeters. The many thin bracts are sawn on the edge. The bracts are longer than the sepals. The flower stalk is about 5 mm long. The hermaphrodite flower is threefold. The three greenish, elongated, sparsely woolly hairy sepals end in a point, have a length of about 1.3 to 1.8 centimeters and a width of 0.6 to 1 centimeter. The three blue petals are about 3 to 3.5 centimeters long and spiral in as they fade. The six free stamens do not protrude beyond the petals and have 4 mm long anthers .
The egg-shaped capsule fruits have a length of 1.6 to 1.8 centimeters and each contain many small, airworthy seeds.
Systematics
This species was introduced by Carl Christian Mez in C.DC. Monogr. Phan. 9: 497 first described.
literature
- Lyman B. Smith & Robert Jack Downs: Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae) in Flora Neotropica No. 14.1: Hafner Press, New York, 1974, p. 152.
