Gouda & Gouda 2016 (Article) Pitcairnia

A new and highly ornamental Pitcairnia species from Peru

Author(s):—E.J. Gouda & R. Gouda

Publication:—Journal of the Bromeliad Society 65(4): 222-228. (2016)

Abstract:—In 2011 the Utrecht University Botanic Gardens received plants of this new species from Peter Bak. The plants were grown from seed collected by our friend Jeroen van der Steen, near Tarapoto, Peru. It is a relatively small Pitcairnia species with attractive yellow-green spineless soft leaves and flowers regularly and very brightly red. It grows very easily in a semi humid greenhouse at room temperature.
December 2012 we (my wife Renate and I, assisted by Ricardo Fernandez, a botanist from Lima (USM)) visited the Tarapoto area and searched for this plant to find its exact locality, but we couldn’t find it. A woman in Tarapoto, who runs a small hostel and a small plant nursery with local plants, had a few of these plants in her nursery for sale indicating that it is from the neighbourhood, and she gave directions where

Keywords:—Pitcairnia, Taxonomy, Amazonian

Published names (1):

Pitcairnia vandersteenii