Authority:

Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

Family:

Bromeliaceae

Description:

Species Description - Plants usually solitary on trees or shrubs, sometimes clustered. Leaves densely appressed-scurfy, linear-attenuate from much dilated bases which form a swollen cluster 2-6 dm. long, the lower ones often as long as the rather slender flowering stems, sometimes longer; inflorescence narrow; spikes 3-8, compressed, 5-10 cm. long, the flowers rather close together; bracts oblonglanceolate, acute, 1.5-2 cm. long; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, about as long as the bracts; petals blue, 4-5 cm. long; capsule subcylindric, about twice as long as the bracts.

Distribution:

Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| West Indies| Jamaica South America| Central America|