Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Description - Plant flowering 25-30 cm high. Leaves numerous, rosulate, 30 cm long, covered with fine subappressed cinereous scales; sheaths suborbicular, 4 cm long, brown; blades very narrowly triangular, filiform-attenuate, 15 mm broad at base, involute. Scape erect or suberect, slender; scape-bracts densely imbricate, suborbicular, 2 cm long, membranaceous, strongly nerved, lepidote, long-flagellate with contorted linear blades. Inflorescence subdigitate from about 7 spikes; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but with little or no blade, erect; spikes divergent to spreading from the apex of a long slender erect sterile base longer than the primary bract, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 4-7 cm long, 1 cm wide, strongly complanate, densely few-flowered; rhachis narrowly winged. Floral bracts lanceolate, obtuse, to 24 mm long, exceeding the sepals, ecarinate, thin, strongly nerved, lepidote. Sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 16 mm long, ecarinate, even, glabrous, lustrous. Capsule slenderly cylindric, 33 mm long.
Description - Plant flowering 25-30 cm high. Leaves numerous, rosulate, 30 cm long, covered with fine subappressed cinereous scales; sheaths suborbicular, 4 cm long, brown; blades very narrowly triangular, filiform-attenuate, 15 mm broad at base, involute. Scape erect or suberect, slender; scape-bracts densely imbricate, suborbicular, 2 cm long, membranaceous, strongly nerved, lepidote, long-flagellate with contorted linear blades. Inflorescence subdigitate from about 7 spikes; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but with little or no blade, erect; spikes divergent to spreading from the apex of a long slender erect sterile base longer than the primary bract, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 4-7 cm long, 1 cm wide, strongly complanate, densely few-flowered; rhachis narrowly winged. Floral bracts lanceolate, obtuse, to 24 mm long, exceeding the sepals, ecarinate, thin, strongly nerved, lepidote. Sepals oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 16 mm long, ecarinate, even, glabrous, lustrous. Capsule slenderly cylindric, 33 mm long.
Distribution:
Ecuador South America| El Oro Ecuador South America|
Ecuador South America| El Oro Ecuador South America|