Catopsis morreniana Mez

Catopsis morreniana Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 628. 1896
Catopsis Bakeri Mez, BuU. Torrey Club 30; 435. 1903.
Plant 2-4 dm. high; leaves 10-20 in a dense rosette, 10-18 cm. long, often with a thin whitecretaceous coat near the base, sparsely appressed-lepidote, soon glabrous; sheaths elliptic, much shorter than the blades; blades ligulate, broadly acute or obtuse, apiculate, 15-25 mm. wide, bearing a very conspicuous narrow white margin; scape erect, 1.5 mm. in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts erect or slightly divergent, foliaceous, conspicuously white-margined, at least the lower much exceeding the internodes, the upper sometimes shorter; inflorescence laxly bipinnate or the staminate sometimes tripinnate, 6-17 cm. long, glabrous, stramineous; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, conspicuous but usually shorter than the axillary spikes; spikes suberect to spreading, the lower long and slenderly stipitate, the staminate subdense, many-flowered, up to 7 cm. long, the perfect or pistillate densely few-flowered, 4-5 cm. long; floral bracts broadly ovate, broadly acute or obtuse, shorter than the sepals, prominently nerved; flowers perfect or dioecious, spreading; sepals strongly asymmetric, thin, prominently nerved, the staminate 3 mm. long, the perfect or pistillate 5-6 mm. long; stamens ineluded, very unequal, anthers suborbicular; ovary ovoid; style very short and stout; capsule ovoid, acute, I cm. long.
Type i,oc.litv: Near Mirador, Orizaba, Mesico.
Distribution: Vera Cruz, British Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

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Catopsis morreniana is a plant species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to Central America and southern Mexico.