Pitcaimia secundiflora

Pitcaimia secundiflora L. B. Smith, Contr
Gray Herb. 114: 7. 1936.
Plant stemless, 2 dm. high; leaves few in a fasciculate rosette, all alike, persistent, 23 cm. long, distinctly petiolate, entire, sparsely tomentose-lepidote below; sheaths ovate, small, the outer ones dark-castaneous; petioles 3-4 cm. long; blades elliptic-oblong, broadly acute, apiculate, 2 cm. wide, chartaceous when dry; scape erect, very sparsely tomentose-lepidote, 2 mm. in diameter; scape-bracts shorter than the internodes, ovate, acute, membranaceous, sparsely appressed-lepidote; inflorescence simple, laxly racemose, secimd-flowered, 5 cm. long, glabrous; floral bracts like the scape-bracts, secund with the flowers, exceeding the pedicels; flowers spreading; pedicels slender, I cm. long; sepals lanceolate, filiform-acuminate, uncinate, 2 cm. long, 4 mm. wide, prominently wing-carinate with the wings decurrent the whole length of the pedicels; petals linear, 35 mm. long, each bearing a single large oblong truncate serrate scale at the base; ovary subspheric, 7 mm. long, two-thirds superior; ovules caudate.
TvPB locality: Table land about Ociiilapa, Chiapas, altitude 1130-1260 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.