Pitcairnia imbricata (Brongn.) Regel

Pitcairnia ochroleuca (Koch & BoucW) Baker, Jour. Bot. 19: 306. 1881.
Neumannia ochroleuca Koch & Bouch6; K. Koch, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1856: App. 2. 1857. Hepais ochroleuca Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 974. 1896.
Leaves exceeding the inflorescence, entire, broadly but distinctly petiolate; blades lanceolate, acuminate, 8 dm. long, 45 mm. wide, coarsely appressed-lepidote or glabrous; scape stout, white-lanate; scape-bracts densely imbricate, elliptic, acuminate, scantly lepidote, the lower ones green, the upper ones tinged with brownish-purple; inflorescence simple, densely subspicate, sceptriform, 25 cm. long, 25 mm. in diameter, many-flowered; floral bracts strict, ovate, long-acuminate, 5 cm. long, 16 mm. wide, much exceeding the sepals, green tinged with purple, conspicuously hyaline-margined when dry; flowers 65 mm. long, barely exserted from the bracts; pedicels very short, obconic; sepals oblong, rounded, apiculate, 25-30 mm. long, over 4 mm. wide, glabrous; petals linear, obtuse, about 6 cm. long, pale-ochraceous, naked; ovary more than three-fourths superior; ovules long-caudate.
TvpB locality: Described from cultivation; origin not slated. Distkibi;tion: Native of Central America or Mexico.

Pitcairnia imbricata (Brongn.) Rcgel, Gartenflora 17: 135. 1868
Neumannia imiiricata Krongn. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 15: 369. 1841.
I'hlomoilachys imhricala Ilccr, Bromel.47. 1857.
Pilcairnia imt/ricala Brongn.; K. Krxrh, Ind. Scm. Hort. Bcrol. 1856: App. 2. as synonym. 1857.
Ilepetis imbricata Mez. in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 973. 1896.
Leaves 10-25 in a spreading rosette, distinctly petiolate, palc-grccn; sheaths large, triangular-ovate, entire, brown, at first covered below with a thick membrane of coalesced scales; petioles up to 3 dm. long, channeled, densely armed with retrorse spinose teeth up to 2.5 mm. long; blades narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 5 dm. long, 45 mm. wide, sparsely furfuraceouslepidote or soon glabrous, entire or with a few teeth at the extreme ba,sc; scape short, 7 mm. in diameter; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, narrowly ovate, acuminate, green; inflorescence simple, subspicate, slenderly cylindric, acute, many-flowered, up to 4 dm. long, 25 mm. in diameter; rhachis sparsely lanate; floral bracts broadly ovate, acute, 4-ranked, erect, densely imbricate, 5-6 cm. long, much exceeding the sepals, nearly or quite glabrous; flowers subsessile; sepals narrowly oblong, rounded-apiculate, 22 mm. long, whitish-green, glabrous except for a few tomentose scales at the base and apex; petals linear, unequal, about 6 cm. long, naked, white, not recur-ed at anthesis; anthers 12 mm. long; ovary almost wholly superior; capsule 2 cm. long, acute; seeds long-caudate at both ends.
Type localitv: "Mexico"; described from cultivation. Distribution: Vera Cruz.

Pitcairnia imbricata is a plant species in the genus Pitcairnia. This species is native to Mexico.