Monographs Details:
Authority:
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Species Description - Stenle plants 20-45 cm tall, the flowering plants to 100 cm, forming broadly funnelform rosette, bright yellow-green and often white-cretaceous. Leaves thin, 18-42 cm long, ovate lanceolate, soon glabrescent distally; blade erect, triangular acute or slightly acuminate. Inflorescences 1-branched or rarely unbranched, when branched with 2-6 polystichously arranged pedunbranches, the peduncle erect, 45-80 cm long, the spikelets laxly and polystichously 7-16-flowered, elongate, 3-11 X 1-1.4 cm, the floral bracts ecarinate, broadly ovate, 0.6-0.8 cm long, glaglabrous abaxially, yellowish green. Flowers suberect or divergent, sessile; sepals slightly asymmetrical, 0.8-1.1 cm long free, smooth, the posterior ones bluntly carinate; petals white.
Species Description - Stenle plants 20-45 cm tall, the flowering plants to 100 cm, forming broadly funnelform rosette, bright yellow-green and often white-cretaceous. Leaves thin, 18-42 cm long, ovate lanceolate, soon glabrescent distally; blade erect, triangular acute or slightly acuminate. Inflorescences 1-branched or rarely unbranched, when branched with 2-6 polystichously arranged pedunbranches, the peduncle erect, 45-80 cm long, the spikelets laxly and polystichously 7-16-flowered, elongate, 3-11 X 1-1.4 cm, the floral bracts ecarinate, broadly ovate, 0.6-0.8 cm long, glaglabrous abaxially, yellowish green. Flowers suberect or divergent, sessile; sepals slightly asymmetrical, 0.8-1.1 cm long free, smooth, the posterior ones bluntly carinate; petals white.
Distribution:
French Guiana South America|
French Guiana South America|