Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Description - Plant 3-5 dm high, usually spreading by elongate scaly rhizomes. Leaves 15-20 in a spreading rosette, to 7 dm long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote; sheaths short and indistinct, castaneous toward the base; blades broadly acute or rounded, apiculate, 4-8 wide. Scape erect, somewhat shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts densely imbricate, broadly elliptic, acute or acuminate, subinflated, bright rose. Inflorescence simple, subglobose, 12-25-flowered, glabrous. Floral bracts broadly obovate, apiculate, about half as long as the sepals and enfolding the base of the flower, coriaceous, bright rose; flowers subsessile. Sepals 25-45 mm long, oblong, obtuse, cucullate, highly connate, coriaceous, yellowish; petals included at anthesis; stamens shorter than the petals.
Description - Plant 3-5 dm high, usually spreading by elongate scaly rhizomes. Leaves 15-20 in a spreading rosette, to 7 dm long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote; sheaths short and indistinct, castaneous toward the base; blades broadly acute or rounded, apiculate, 4-8 wide. Scape erect, somewhat shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts densely imbricate, broadly elliptic, acute or acuminate, subinflated, bright rose. Inflorescence simple, subglobose, 12-25-flowered, glabrous. Floral bracts broadly obovate, apiculate, about half as long as the sepals and enfolding the base of the flower, coriaceous, bright rose; flowers subsessile. Sepals 25-45 mm long, oblong, obtuse, cucullate, highly connate, coriaceous, yellowish; petals included at anthesis; stamens shorter than the petals.