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 - Leaves many, rosulate, often over 2 meters long, sheaths very broad, densely and coasely tomentose-lepidote, blades linear, acuminate, 4 cm. wide, deep green above, pale green and very minutely appressed-lepidote beneath, armed with stout teeth to 10 mm. long; scape stout, white-farinose; scape-bracts foliaceous but with the sheaths roseate and subinflated; inflorescence many-flowered, narrowly pyramidal, white-farinose; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but the upper ones entire; branches to 12-flowered; floral bracts linear-subulate from a short broad base, 3 cm. long; flowers to 6 cm. long, distinctly pedicellate; sepals erect, pale; petals 3 cm. long, 5.5-6 mm. wide, densely white-tomentose at the apex; ovary slenderly ellipsoid, 2 cm. long; berry ovoid, about 35 mm. long, yellow or ochraceous, strongly verrucose, acidulous, aromatic.
Description - Leaves many, rosulate, often over 2 meters long, sheaths very broad, densely and coasely tomentose-lepidote, blades linear, acuminate, 4 cm. wide, deep green above, pale green and very minutely appressed-lepidote beneath, armed with stout teeth to 10 mm. long; scape stout, white-farinose; scape-bracts foliaceous but with the sheaths roseate and subinflated; inflorescence many-flowered, narrowly pyramidal, white-farinose; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but the upper ones entire; branches to 12-flowered; floral bracts linear-subulate from a short broad base, 3 cm. long; flowers to 6 cm. long, distinctly pedicellate; sepals erect, pale; petals 3 cm. long, 5.5-6 mm. wide, densely white-tomentose at the apex; ovary slenderly ellipsoid, 2 cm. long; berry ovoid, about 35 mm. long, yellow or ochraceous, strongly verrucose, acidulous, aromatic.