Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Description - Stemless; leaves numerous, 15-40 cm. long, equaling or exceeding the inflorescence, very densely and minutely pale-lepidote, green, sheaths triangular-ovate, blades recurving, acuminate, 7-12 mm. wide; scape erect, stout, very short and almost completely hidden by the leaves; scape-bracts densely imbricate, ovate, acute or the lowest with an erect linear blade, much smaller than the floral bracts, coriaceous, even, glabrous; inflorescence elliptic, strongly complanate, 10-15 cm. long, 55 mm. wide, 10-20-flowered, glabrous; floral bracts suberect, acute, coriaceous, even, somewhat lustrous, green or pale rose with greenish margins; flowers short-pedicellate; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, 3 cm. long, coriaceous, even, carinate; petals more than twice as long as the sepals, the claw linear, white, the blade spreading, lance-elliptic, acute, blue or rarely white; stamens deeply included, exceeding the style; capsule slenderly cylindric, shorter than the sepals.
Description - Stemless; leaves numerous, 15-40 cm. long, equaling or exceeding the inflorescence, very densely and minutely pale-lepidote, green, sheaths triangular-ovate, blades recurving, acuminate, 7-12 mm. wide; scape erect, stout, very short and almost completely hidden by the leaves; scape-bracts densely imbricate, ovate, acute or the lowest with an erect linear blade, much smaller than the floral bracts, coriaceous, even, glabrous; inflorescence elliptic, strongly complanate, 10-15 cm. long, 55 mm. wide, 10-20-flowered, glabrous; floral bracts suberect, acute, coriaceous, even, somewhat lustrous, green or pale rose with greenish margins; flowers short-pedicellate; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, 3 cm. long, coriaceous, even, carinate; petals more than twice as long as the sepals, the claw linear, white, the blade spreading, lance-elliptic, acute, blue or rarely white; stamens deeply included, exceeding the style; capsule slenderly cylindric, shorter than the sepals.