Desc from S&D
Plant flowering to 1 m high, sometimes with a short erect stem.
Leaves 20-30 in a fasciculate rosette, all alike, persistent, 3-6 dm long, slightly narrowed but not petiolate, entire;
sheaths subtriangular, large, pale, sparsely furfuraceous;
blades linear, long-attenuate, flat, 12-18 mm wide, glabrous above, furfuraceous beneath at first.
Scape slender, sparsely furfuraceous;
scape-bracts narrowly triangular or lanceolate, long-attenuate, furfuraceous, the upper usually shorter than the internodes.
Inflorescence laxly racemose, to 3 dm long, usually many-flowered;
rhachis sparsely furfuraceous at first.
Floral bracts very narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, 2-3 times shorter than the pedicels;
flowers spreading to reflexed;
pedicels very slender, to 3 cm long.
Sepals very narrowly triangular, attenuate, 19-22 mm long, nearly 4 mm wide, ecarinate or slightly carinate, green, glabrous;
petals acute, about 6 cm long, equally recurved at anthesis, naked, red;
stamens exceeding the petals and long-exserted at anthesis;
filaments straight, red;
ovary 2/3 superior.
Capsule slenderly ovoid, opening nearly to base;
seeds caudate.
TYPE. Description and plate in the absence of any preserved material.
DISTRIBUTION. Saxicolous, ca 300 m alt, Bahia to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
BRAZIL. ESPIRITO SANTO: Domingo Martins, near Vitoria, 24 Jul 1939, Foster 232 (GH, old and doubtful); without exact locality and possibly from Bahia, Sellow 942 (BM). RIO DE JANEIRO: Vicinity of Rio de Janeiro, 1843, Weddell 515 (P); Inoa, 23 Jul 1961, Gomes, Mello Filho & BurleMarx 1209 (RB). GUANABARA: Morro Flamengo, Miers s n (BM); Jul 1857, Gardner 846 (BM); Morro da Babilonia, May 1914, Hoehne 28 (SP); Gavea, Jun 1915, Frazao s n (RB); Pedra de Itanhanga, Recreio dos Bandeirantes, 13 May 1965, Santos 5852-5856 (R); near Lagoa Jacarepagua, 19 May 1966, Pereira 10483 (HB, US); without exact locality, Lay & Collie (Beechey Voyage) s n (BM).

Pitcairnia staminea Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 8: pl. 722. 1823. by T. Wendt in Selbyana 15 (2): 66-78. 1994
TYPE. Original description and plate in the absence of any preserved material (Smith & Downs 1974).
Plant flowering 60.0-140.0 cm tall.
Leaf blades linear. long-attenuate, glabrous above and furfuraceous beneath, persistent, homomorphic, entire slightly narrowed above the leaf sheath, 1.2-2.0 cm wide, 30.0-60.0 cm long;
leaf sheath subtriangular, sparsely lepidote, 2.5-4.0 cm long.
Inflorescence simple, lax, usually many-flowered;
rachis red, glabrous to furfuraceous, I5.0-50.0 cm tong.
Scape erect, slender, sparsely furfuraceous;
scape bracts narrowly triangular or lanceolate, attenuate, furfuraceous, usually smaller than the internodes.
Floral bracts narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, three times shorter than the pedicels.
Pedicels very slender, more or less perpendicular to the rachis, 2.5-3.5 cm long.
Sepals narrowly triangular, attenuate, carinate, greenish, glabrous, 1.9-2.2 cm long.
Corolla actinomorphic at the anthesis with petals recurved, red, unappendaged, 5.0-6.0 cm long.
Ovary superior; ovules bicaudate.
Fruit capsule septicide, seed bicaudate.

Material examined. Rio de Janeiro -encostas do Morro da Urca e Pao de Acucar, 09 VI 1957, fl., Mello Filho 1349(R); 08 V 1966, fl.,A. Castellanos s.n. (GUA); Pedra da Gavea, VII 1915, fl., A. Frazao s.n. (RB); Morro da Babilonia, VII 1913, fr., F. G Hoehne 17 (R); Pedra Musema, 11 V 1963, fl., J. P. Lanna Sobrinho 633 (GUA); Recreio-dos Bandeirantes, Pedra do Itanhanga, IV 1960, fl., A. P. Duarte 5219(RB, RUSU); 30 V 1987, fl., T. Wendt & T. Fontoura 143 (RB). Niteroi-Praia de Itacoatiara, falso Pao de Aqucar, 15 III 1964, fl., L F. Pabst s.n. (HB). Marica-Morro do Ceu, 11 IV 1986, fl., D. Araujo 7348 (GUA); Inoa, 23 VII 1961, fl., Gomes, Mello Filho & Burle Marx 1209 (RB); Itaipuacu, proximo a Pedra do Elefante, IV 1988, fl., T. Fontoura s.n. (RB); entre as Praias de Itaipuacu e Itacoatiara, Alto Moirao, 12 IV 1989, fl., R. Andreata et al. 878 (RUSU).