Racinaea inconspicua

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Overview

Endangered

Description

Family Bromeliaceae

Herbs or rarely shrubs , epiphytic, lithophytic, or terrestrial . Leaves spirally arranged , usually rosulate, sessile, simple , veins parallel, base dilated , sheathing , margin often spinose serrate or sometimes entire. Inflorescence terminal or lateral , scapose or sessile, a panicle, raceme , spike, or head , sometimes reduced to solitary, pseudolateral flowers; bracts usually brightly colored and conspicuous . Flowers bisexual or sometimes functionally unisexual , 3-merous. Sepals and petals each 3, distinct , free or basally connate ; petals often brightly colored, basal margin with a pair of scalelike appendages . Stamens 6, in 2 whorls of 3; filaments free, connate, or collectively or individually adnate to petals; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Gynoecium of 3 carpels united to form a compound , 3-loculed, superior or very often partly or wholly inferior ovary ; ovules few to usually ± numerous in each locule; placentation axile . Style terminal and often 3-parted; stigmas papillose . Fruit a berry or less often a septicidal capsule, or seldom compound and fleshy . Seeds usually winged or plumose ; endosperm mealy ; embryo small to fairly large.

About 50 genera and 2000--2600 species: mainly tropical America, except for Pitcairnia feliciana (A. Chevalier) Harms & Mildbraed in tropical W Africa; one species (introduced ) in China.[1]

Habitat

Ecology: Low Andean forest (1,500–2,000 m ).[2]


List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Racinaea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 69 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

R. adpressa · R. adpressa orthiantha · R. adpressa subsp. orthiantha · R. adscendens · R. almeriae · R. blassii · R. commixa · R. contorta · R. crispa · R. cuspidata · R. dielsii · R. diffusa · R. domingomartinis · R. elegans · R. euryelytra · R. fawcettii · R. flexuosa · R. fraseri · R. ghiesbreghtii · R. gilmartinae · R. gilmartiniae · R. hauggiae · R. hauggii · R. homostachya · R. inconspicua · R. insularis · R. jenmanii · R. kalliantha · R. kessleri · R. laminata · R. lescaillei · R. lyman-smithiana · R. lymansmithiana · R. maculata · R. membranacifolia · R. michelii · R. miniata · R. monticola · R. multiflora · R. multiflora var. decipiens · R. nervibractea · R. pallidoflavens · R. pardina · R. parviflora · R. pectinata · R. pendulispica · R. penlandii · R. pseudotetrantha (Huicundo) · R. pugiformis · R. quadripinnata (Huaicundo) · R. riocreuxii · R. ropalocarpa · R. rothschuhiana · R. schumanniana · R. seemannii · R. sinuosa · R. spiculosa · R. spiculosa var. ustulata · R. steyermarkii · R. subalata · R. tandapiana · R. tenuispica · R. tetrantha · R. tetrantha (Ruiz & Pav.) M.A.Spencer & L.B.Sm. var. aurantiaca (Griseb.) M.A.S · R. tetrantha var. aurantiaca · R. tetrantha var. caribaea · R. trapeziformis · R. tripinnata · R. undulifolia

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Further Reading

• Spencer, M.A. and Smith, L.B. 1994. Racinaea; A new genus of Bromeliaceae (Tillandsioideae). Journal of the Bromeliad Society 44(4): 156-158.
• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. Racinaea inconspicua. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7150678
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-260627
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:970583-1
• IUCN ID: 43321
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026870

Footnotes

1. Wei-liang Ma & Bruce Bartholomew "Bromeliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 18. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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