Pitcairnia rondonicola L.B.Sm. & Read

Literature references:

J. Bromeliad Soc.: 36:11b

Comments:

• This new bromeliad (fig. 4) comes from the remote region along Venezuela's southern border popularly known as the "Lost World" from Conan Doyle's famous novel. It has not yielded any of the live dinosaurs recounted in the book but its plants are strictly out of this world. Although this comes to Pitcairnia bulbosa in the Flora Neotropica key it is quite unlike it even from a great distance. —See Smith & Read 1986 p. 36(1): 10-11