Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Synonyms:
Aechmea cylindrata var. micrantha Lindm., Aechmea hyacinthus F.J.Müll.
Aechmea cylindrata var. micrantha Lindm., Aechmea hyacinthus F.J.Müll.
Description:
Description - Plant propagating by stout rhizomes 15-20 cm long, flowering 3-6 dm high. Leaves 10-17 in a dense rosette, suberect, 2-8 dm long; sheaths large but usually not much wider than the blades, elliptic, entire, often tinged with dark purple, covered with minute appressed pale brown-centered scales; blades ligulate, broadly rounded and apiculate, 30-65 mm wide, pale-lepidote especially beneath, green except for the reddish apex, laxly and minutely serrate or nearly entire. Scape erect, white-flocculose at first; scape-bracts narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, entire, pale rose, very delicate and soon deciduous. Inflorescence simple, dense or lax at anthesis, 6-25 cm long, 25-55 mm in diameter, sparsely white-flocculose. Floral bracts narrowly triangular, attenuate, thin with a slightly pungent apex, the lower exceeding the flowers; flowers polystichous, sessile, 14-20 mm long. Sepals asymmetric, to 5 mm long without the brown terminal 2 mm spine, connate for 3 mm, pale rose; petals ligulate, obtuse, to 13 mm long, pale blue, bearing 2 fimbriate scales at base; stamens included; ovary slenderly ellipsoid, strongly nerved, epigynous tube large; placentae central; ovules obtuse.
Description - Plant propagating by stout rhizomes 15-20 cm long, flowering 3-6 dm high. Leaves 10-17 in a dense rosette, suberect, 2-8 dm long; sheaths large but usually not much wider than the blades, elliptic, entire, often tinged with dark purple, covered with minute appressed pale brown-centered scales; blades ligulate, broadly rounded and apiculate, 30-65 mm wide, pale-lepidote especially beneath, green except for the reddish apex, laxly and minutely serrate or nearly entire. Scape erect, white-flocculose at first; scape-bracts narrowly lanceolate, attenuate, entire, pale rose, very delicate and soon deciduous. Inflorescence simple, dense or lax at anthesis, 6-25 cm long, 25-55 mm in diameter, sparsely white-flocculose. Floral bracts narrowly triangular, attenuate, thin with a slightly pungent apex, the lower exceeding the flowers; flowers polystichous, sessile, 14-20 mm long. Sepals asymmetric, to 5 mm long without the brown terminal 2 mm spine, connate for 3 mm, pale rose; petals ligulate, obtuse, to 13 mm long, pale blue, bearing 2 fimbriate scales at base; stamens included; ovary slenderly ellipsoid, strongly nerved, epigynous tube large; placentae central; ovules obtuse.
Distribution:
Brazil South America| São Paulo Brazil South America| Paraná Brazil South America| Santa Catarina Brazil South America|
Brazil South America| São Paulo Brazil South America| Paraná Brazil South America| Santa Catarina Brazil South America|