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 - Spreading by by stolons, flowering shoot 3-8 dm. high; leaves rosulate, erect, 6-7 dm. long, sheaths ovate, 7-12 cm. long, often castaneous toward the base, blades linear-triangular, acuminate, glabrous above, obscurely punctulate beneath; scape erect, slender; scape-bracts strict, densely imbricate, foliaceous; inflorescence few-branched, subcorymbose, green; primary bracts ovate, acute or acuminate, about half as long as the branches; spikes subellipsoid, sessile or subsessile, densely 3-10-flowered, 25-40 mm. long; floral bracts ovate, broadly acute or obtuse, slightly but constantly shorter than the sepals, coriaceous, subglabrous; flowers subsessile; sepals elliptic, short-connate, carinate, coriaceous; petals white; capsule slenderly cylindric, 3 cm. long; coma reddish brown.
Description - Spreading by by stolons, flowering shoot 3-8 dm. high; leaves rosulate, erect, 6-7 dm. long, sheaths ovate, 7-12 cm. long, often castaneous toward the base, blades linear-triangular, acuminate, glabrous above, obscurely punctulate beneath; scape erect, slender; scape-bracts strict, densely imbricate, foliaceous; inflorescence few-branched, subcorymbose, green; primary bracts ovate, acute or acuminate, about half as long as the branches; spikes subellipsoid, sessile or subsessile, densely 3-10-flowered, 25-40 mm. long; floral bracts ovate, broadly acute or obtuse, slightly but constantly shorter than the sepals, coriaceous, subglabrous; flowers subsessile; sepals elliptic, short-connate, carinate, coriaceous; petals white; capsule slenderly cylindric, 3 cm. long; coma reddish brown.