Catopsis juncifolia Mez & Wercklé

Bosques húmedos de bajura.

Distribucion en Costa Rica: Llanuras de San Carlos, Vertiente Atlántica (incluídas las faldas de la Cordillera), elevación entre 50 y 900 m.
Distribucion General: Guatemala, desde Belice hasta Panamá.

Epífita.

Epífita. Hojas de 6.5 a 14 por 0.2 a 0.5 cm, subcoriáceas. Vainas densamente lepidotas. Láminas linear-lanceoladas, largo-acuminadas. Márgenes no hialinos. Escapo erecto, más largo que las hojas. Brácteas usualmente más largas que los entrenudos. Inflorescencia estaminada desconocida. Inflorescencia pistilada, unipinnada de 8 a 14 cm. Espigas de 2 a 10 cm. Brácteas más cortas o más largas que los entrenudos. Brácteas florales de 2.5 a 3 mm, más cortas que los sépalos, cartáceas. Sépalos de 3 a 5 mm, conspícuamente nervados. Flores sésiles, pétalos blancos. Cápsulas de 0.8 a 1 cm. Se reconoce por sus hojas pequeñas y angostas, subcoriáceas, con la lámina conspicuamente constricta en la unión con la vaina.

Localidad del tipo: Costa Rica
Depositario del tipo: HT: B; Foto: B, MO
Recolector del tipo: Werckle 133

Catopsis juncifolia Mez & Werckle; Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 4: 1124. 1904.
Plant slender, up to 23 cm. high; leaves many in a subbulbous rosette, 9 cm. long, not at all cretaceous; sheaths very large, ovate-elliptic, densely and minutely brown-punctulate-lepidote ; blades junciform-subulate, acuminate, 5 mm. wide at the base, obscurely pale-punctulate; scape erect, slender, terete, glabrous; scape-bracts exceeding the internodes; inflorescence sparsely bipinnate, lax, strict, composed of a terminal spike of about 10 flowers and 2 longstipitate lateral spikes of 2 or 3 flowers; primary bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, not attaining the lowest flowers of the axillary spikes; floral bracts suberect, very broadly ovale, obtuse, much shorter than the sepals, subcoriaceous, prominently nerved; flowers suberect, dioecious, only the pistillate known, about 4 mm. long, glabrous; sepals strongly asymmetric, obtuse; petals very broadly subelliptic, obtuse or retuse, barely longer than the sepals; stamens present in the pistillate flowers but sterile, the anthers mucronate; ovary pyramidal.
TvPB locality: Costa Rica.
DiSTRiBtrriON: Known only from the type locality.

Catopsis lundelliana L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 6. 1937.
Plant 25-30 cm. high; leaves many in a dense subglobose rosette, 1 dm. long, densely and
obscurely punctulate-lepidote; sheaths narrowly ovate or elliptic, 15-30 mm. long, not at all
inflated; blades linear, acuminate, 5 mm. wide at the base, involute-subulate toward the apex
in drying; scape erect, very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, exceeding the internodes,
lanceolate with an elongate linear acuminate blade; inflorescence laxly compound from 3 or 4
branches, 7-12 cm. long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, shorter than the sterile
bases of the axillary branches; spikes divergent, straight, very laxly subtristiehous-flowered,
up to 95 mm. long; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, thin, prominently nerved, much shorter
than the sepals, obscurely punctulate-lepidote ; flowers suberect ; sepals obovate, obtuse, strongly
asymmetric, 5 nun. long, thin, prominently nerved, obscurely pale-lepidote; petals barely ex-
serted, broadly elliptic, obtuse; stamens unequal; style short but distinct.
Type locality; Limestone valley, Valentin, El Cayo District, British Honduras. Distribution: Known only from the type collection.

Catopsis juncifolia is a plant species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Central America and southern Mexico.

Catopsis juncifolia est une espèce de plantes tropicales de la famille des Bromeliaceae, présente en Amérique centrale.

Catopsis juncifolia là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bromeliaceae. Loài này được Mez & Wercklé mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1904.