Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Description - Leaves over 4 dm long; blades very narrowly lanceolate, to 3 cm wide, glabrous, for the whole length bearing stout dark castaneous spines 4-5 mm long. Inflorescence rather few-flowered; outer bracts with bases broadly ovate, dark castaneous, sparsely lepidote, entire, broadly hyaline-margined, blades narrowly triangular, pale. Floral bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pungent, 4 cm long, exceeded by the sepals, entire with a dorsal mucro, the lower part stramineous and membranaceous, the upper dark castaneous, coriaceous, sparsely lepidote; flowers 5-6 cm long. Sepals like the floral bracts, 20 mm long; corolla 30-35 mm long.
Description - Leaves over 4 dm long; blades very narrowly lanceolate, to 3 cm wide, glabrous, for the whole length bearing stout dark castaneous spines 4-5 mm long. Inflorescence rather few-flowered; outer bracts with bases broadly ovate, dark castaneous, sparsely lepidote, entire, broadly hyaline-margined, blades narrowly triangular, pale. Floral bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pungent, 4 cm long, exceeded by the sepals, entire with a dorsal mucro, the lower part stramineous and membranaceous, the upper dark castaneous, coriaceous, sparsely lepidote; flowers 5-6 cm long. Sepals like the floral bracts, 20 mm long; corolla 30-35 mm long.