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Vriesea vagans
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Vriesea vagans (L. B. Smith) L. B. Smith, Phytologia 13: 118. 1966. Fig 408 A-B. Vriesea philippocoburgii var vagans L. B. Smith, Arq. Bot. S. Paulo II. I: 121, pl. 131. 1943; as "Vriesia.'.
Desc from S&D Plant propagating by elongate rhizomes, flowering 6-9 dm high. Leaves many, 20-36 cm long; Sheaths elliptic, distinctly wider than the blades, dark purple toward apex, diffusely and minutely brown-lepidote; Blades ligulate, rounded to acute, 2-4 cm wide, usually green except for the dark purple apex, obscurely lepidote. Scape erect, slender, mostly equaling or exceeding the leaves; Scape-bracts densely imbricate, divergent, foliaceous, the upper-bright red. Inflorescence very laxly paniculate, rather few branched, nearly glabrous; Primary bracts much shorter than the branches, the lower subfoliaceous, ample, the upper ovate, apiculate; Branches suberect, lax, to 15 cm long, all simple, the lower bearing sterile bracts at base; Rhachis slender, flexuous. Floral bracts downwardly secund with the flowers, broadly ovate, acute, about equaling the middle of the sepals, straight, more or less carinate, membranaceous, red; Pedicels 3 mm long. Sepals lanceolate or elliptic, broadly acute, mostly 20 mm long, ecarinate, yellow. Petals linear, acute, to 30 mm long, light orange, bearing 2 acute scales at base; Stamens exserted. Type. Foster 399 (holotype GH, isotype US), km 279, near Apiai, Sao Paulo to Curitiba, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 Aug 1939. DISTRIBUTION. Epiphytic in forest, from near sea level to 1400 m alt, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro to Rio Grande do Sul in southeastern Brazil.
BRAZIL. MINAS GERAIS, Jaboticatubas: Vaccaria Palacio, Serra do Cipo, Jul 1940, Foster 635 (GH). RIO DE JANEIRO; Teresopolis, 2 May 1917, Sampaio 2421 (R); Jun 1956, Abendroth 8 (US); Petropolis, 19 May 1939, Foster 35 (GH); 9 Aug 1939, 339 (GH); Itatiaia, 29 Jun 1939, Foster 114 (GH, R). GUANABARA; Rio de Janeiro, 10 Feb 1952, Reitz 4277 (HBR). SAO PAULO: Guapuira, 25 Aug 1939, M. Kuhlmann s n (SP). PARANA: Jacarei, Dusen 17195 (GH, SP, S); Guaratuba, 3 Feb 1952, Reitz 4251 (HBR); 21 Feb 1952, 4374 (HBR); 28 Feb 1965, Hatschbach 12310 (US); Serra Capivari Grande, Antonina, 14 Apr 1967, Hatschbach 16350 (US). SANTA CATARINA: Sombrio, 4 Feb 1946, Rambo s n (MO, PACA); Fachinal, 19 jan 1945, Reitz C-952 (GH, HBR); Ribeirao do Ouro, May 1950, Reitz 3636 (HBR); Paulo Lopes, Reitz & Klein 102 (HBR); Ibirama, 1 Mar 1954, Reitz & Klein 1592 (HBR, US); 2 Mar 1954, 1657 (HBR, US); Brusque, Feb 1952, Smith & Veloso 5673 (R, US); Mar 1952, Smith & Reitz 6142 (R, US). RIO GRANDE DO SUL: Lagoa dos Quadros, Torres, 28 Jan 1950, Rambo s n (PACA, US).
