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 - Long-caulescent, flowering shoot 9 dm. high; leaves rosulate, 4-6 dm. long, densely brown-lepidote beneath, white-lepidote above; sheaths elliptic, large, blades spreading, acute, flat, 4 cm. wide; scape erect or ascending; scape-bracts divergent, foliaceous, densely imbricate; inflorescence cylindric, 25 cm, long; primary bracts spreading, imbricate, dull maroon with green apices, the lower ones subfoliaceous; the upper broadly ovate, acute; floral bracts elliptic, slightly shorter than the sepals, membranaceous, densely appressed-lepidote; sepals oblong, obtuse, densely lepidote; petals linear, obtuse, 4-5 cm. long, yellow.
Description - Long-caulescent, flowering shoot 9 dm. high; leaves rosulate, 4-6 dm. long, densely brown-lepidote beneath, white-lepidote above; sheaths elliptic, large, blades spreading, acute, flat, 4 cm. wide; scape erect or ascending; scape-bracts divergent, foliaceous, densely imbricate; inflorescence cylindric, 25 cm, long; primary bracts spreading, imbricate, dull maroon with green apices, the lower ones subfoliaceous; the upper broadly ovate, acute; floral bracts elliptic, slightly shorter than the sepals, membranaceous, densely appressed-lepidote; sepals oblong, obtuse, densely lepidote; petals linear, obtuse, 4-5 cm. long, yellow.