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 - Stemless; leaves to 45 cm, long, exceeding the inflorescence, subdensely lepidote with brown appressed scales, sheaths elliptic, 8-10 cm. long, dark castaneous, blades ligulate, 25 mm. wide, flat, green; scape erect, short; scape-bracts strict, densely imbricate, foliaceous, the upper ones roseate; inflorescence 15 cm. long; primary bracts broadly ovate with a subtriangular blade, erect, much exceeding the flowers, roseate with a castaneous base; floral bracts lanceolate, inflexed at the apex, exceeding the sepals, their apical third pale brown and subchartaceous, elsewhere castaneous and coriaceous; flowers subsessile; sepals like the floral bracts, 20 mm. long, free.
Description - Stemless; leaves to 45 cm, long, exceeding the inflorescence, subdensely lepidote with brown appressed scales, sheaths elliptic, 8-10 cm. long, dark castaneous, blades ligulate, 25 mm. wide, flat, green; scape erect, short; scape-bracts strict, densely imbricate, foliaceous, the upper ones roseate; inflorescence 15 cm. long; primary bracts broadly ovate with a subtriangular blade, erect, much exceeding the flowers, roseate with a castaneous base; floral bracts lanceolate, inflexed at the apex, exceeding the sepals, their apical third pale brown and subchartaceous, elsewhere castaneous and coriaceous; flowers subsessile; sepals like the floral bracts, 20 mm. long, free.