Pitcairnia ringens Klotzsch

Pitcairnia ringens Klotzsch; Link, Klotzsch, & Otto, Ic. PI. Rar. 63. 1842.
PUcairnia montalbensis A. Dietr. Allg. Gart. 19: 138. 1851. Htpetis ringens Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 974. 1896.
Stemless, 4-9 dm. high; leaves about 20 in a dense bulbous rosetle, 7-9 dm. long; sheaths broadly ovate or suhwrbiailar, brown ; blades linear, acuminate, 1 2 mm. wide, not at all contracted at base, deciduous along a straight transverse line, entire above the line of cleavage, glabrous at maturity; scape erect, over I cm. in diameter, whitc-lepidote; scape-bracts erect, exceeding the internodes, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, the upper ones 35 mm. long, whiteflocculose to glabrous; inflorescence simple, subdensely racemose, 2 dm. long; floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, exceeding the pedicels; flowers divergent to spreading; pedicels slender, up to 1 cm. long; sepals lancc-oblong, acute, 23 mm. long, scarcely or not at all carinalc, minutely furfuraceous at the apex; petals linear, acute, 6 cm. long, exceeding the stamens, erect at anthesis, red, naked; ovary more than half superior; ovules long-caudate.
Tvps locality: Described from cultivation.
Distribution: Central Mexico.

Pitcairnia ringens is a plant species in the genus Pitcairnia. This species is endemic to Mexico.