Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Species Description - Plants usually clustered on trees, the flowering stems stout, 2-6 dm. long. Leaves densely appressed-scurfy, lanceolate-attenuate, their bases 5 cm. wide or less, the lower ones often as long as the flowering stems, the upper smaller; spikes subdigitate, compressed, 5-15 em. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute, manyflowered; bracts oblong, acute, appressed, rigid, 2-3 cm. long, red or reddish; sepals lanceolate, about as long as the bracts; petals blue, nearly twice as long as the sepals; capsules as long as the bracts or somewhat longer.
Species Description - Plants usually clustered on trees, the flowering stems stout, 2-6 dm. long. Leaves densely appressed-scurfy, lanceolate-attenuate, their bases 5 cm. wide or less, the lower ones often as long as the flowering stems, the upper smaller; spikes subdigitate, compressed, 5-15 em. long, 1-3 cm. wide, acute, manyflowered; bracts oblong, acute, appressed, rigid, 2-3 cm. long, red or reddish; sepals lanceolate, about as long as the bracts; petals blue, nearly twice as long as the sepals; capsules as long as the bracts or somewhat longer.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| West Indies|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| West Indies|