Orthophytum magalhaesii
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Orthophytum magalhaesii
Orthophytum magalhaesii L. B. Smith, Phytologia 13: 464, pl. 1, figs. 23, 24. 1966.
Desc from S&D
Plant flowering over 55 cm high, its base unknown.
Leaves (or basal scape-bracts) 50 cm long, covered throughout with a dense felt of spreading finely divided white scales;
Sheaths obscure, evidenced mainly by fine or no serration;
Blades very narrowly triangular, caudate-acuminate, very laxly serrate with low antrorse spines.
Scape erect, 5 mm in diameter, densely tomentose-lepidote;
Scape-bracts reduced upward but little changed in shape.
Inflorescence laxly compound, tomentose-lepidote, becoming glabrous with age;
Primary bracts subfoliaceous, all but the highest many times exceeding the globose axillary spikes.
Floral bracts triangular, recurved, exceeding the flowers, minutely serrate with flat spines.
Sepals free, narrowly triangular, spinose-attenuate, 14 mm long, nerved, the posterior ones alate;
Petals imperfectly known.
Type. M. Magalhaes 19187 (holotype, HB; photo US), Ouro Verde, Itambacuri, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 9 May 1958.
Distribution. Rock outcrops, known from the type area only.
BRAZIL. Minas Gerais: Ouro Verde, Ataleia, 8 Sep 1958, M. Magalhaes 11035 (RB).
Updated 25/08/25
