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 10-22 cm high; stem very short. Leaves many, rosulate, sometimes secund, 6-18 cm long, from much shorter than the inflorescence to exceeding it, covered with appressed cinereous scales; sheaths narrow and obscure; blades very narrowly triangular, long-attenuate, 4-11 mm wide at base. Scape erect to decurved, slender, usually well developed but sometimes short; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper elliptic with linear blades, membranaceous, lepidote. Inflorescence simple, dense, or lax toward base, 2-7 cm long, 15-35 mm in diameter. Floral bracts erect to spreading, elliptic, membranaceous, yellowish white to rose, the lower exceeding the flowers, lepidote toward apex, filiform-laminate. Sepals lance-ovate, acute, 9-13 mm long (6-18.5 mm ! Mez), equally connate for 2-4 mm, membranaceous, glabrous; petals 15-24 mm long, blue or purple, blades narrow, obtuse or emarginate; stamens about equaling the petal-claws; filaments plicate. Capsule slenderly cylindric, to 4 cm long.
Description - Plant flowering 10-22 cm high; stem very short. Leaves many, rosulate, sometimes secund, 6-18 cm long, from much shorter than the inflorescence to exceeding it, covered with appressed cinereous scales; sheaths narrow and obscure; blades very narrowly triangular, long-attenuate, 4-11 mm wide at base. Scape erect to decurved, slender, usually well developed but sometimes short; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper elliptic with linear blades, membranaceous, lepidote. Inflorescence simple, dense, or lax toward base, 2-7 cm long, 15-35 mm in diameter. Floral bracts erect to spreading, elliptic, membranaceous, yellowish white to rose, the lower exceeding the flowers, lepidote toward apex, filiform-laminate. Sepals lance-ovate, acute, 9-13 mm long (6-18.5 mm ! Mez), equally connate for 2-4 mm, membranaceous, glabrous; petals 15-24 mm long, blue or purple, blades narrow, obtuse or emarginate; stamens about equaling the petal-claws; filaments plicate. Capsule slenderly cylindric, to 4 cm long.