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 - Plant stemless, to 8 dm. high, leaves rosulate, 3-4 dm. long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote, often irregularly purple-spotted, sheaths relatively large, broadly ovate, dark brown, blades ligulate, rounded-apiculate or acute, 2-4 cm. wide; scape erect, glabrous, often much exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts narrowly elliptic, rounded-apiculate or short-caudate, about equahng the internodes or the upper ones slightly shorter, punctulate-lepidote; inflorescence tripinnate or bipinnate, lax; axes soon glabrous; primary bracts narrowly ovate, apiculate, much shorter than the axillary branches; spikes linear, often curved, 24-flowered, to 9 cm. long, 6-9 mm. wide, spreading, usually long-stipitate with sterile bracts at the base; floral bracts broadly ovate, equaling or slightly exceeding the sepals, convex, ecarinate, coriaceous, scantly lepidote or glabrous; sepals broadly elliptic, even, glabrous, asymmetric; petals orange or yellow, acute; stamens included; ovary globose, the style short; capsule slenderly cylindric, 22 mm. long.
Description - Plant stemless, to 8 dm. high, leaves rosulate, 3-4 dm. long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote, often irregularly purple-spotted, sheaths relatively large, broadly ovate, dark brown, blades ligulate, rounded-apiculate or acute, 2-4 cm. wide; scape erect, glabrous, often much exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts narrowly elliptic, rounded-apiculate or short-caudate, about equahng the internodes or the upper ones slightly shorter, punctulate-lepidote; inflorescence tripinnate or bipinnate, lax; axes soon glabrous; primary bracts narrowly ovate, apiculate, much shorter than the axillary branches; spikes linear, often curved, 24-flowered, to 9 cm. long, 6-9 mm. wide, spreading, usually long-stipitate with sterile bracts at the base; floral bracts broadly ovate, equaling or slightly exceeding the sepals, convex, ecarinate, coriaceous, scantly lepidote or glabrous; sepals broadly elliptic, even, glabrous, asymmetric; petals orange or yellow, acute; stamens included; ovary globose, the style short; capsule slenderly cylindric, 22 mm. long.