Location ²

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru

Description ²

Medium-sized, terrestrial, epiphytic & lithophytic. Has dark spines towards the base, long petioles, a stout scape, a cylindrical curved inflorescence with red sepals and yellow-saffron petals.

Habitat Type ²

Lowland rainforest, broadleaved forest, montane and cloud forest. Found 200m – 2000m asl.

References ²

Romand-Monnier, F. & Contu, S. 2013. Pitcairnia arcuata. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2.

Sources and Credits

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2. (c) consci2014, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNaturalist NZ taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Catalogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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