Vriesea malzinei E.Morren
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 8 dm high but usually less. Leaves to 3 dm long, dark red below or the sheaths green with red spots, green or green with red spots above; blades 4-5 cm wide, ligulate, acute. Scape erect, about equaling the leaves; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower ones produced into a short spreading blade, the upper ones abruptly acute. Inflorescence simple, cylindric, to 17 cm long, densely 10-24-flowered. Floral bracts very broadly ovate, obtuse, 25 mm long, 28 mm wide, shorter than the sepals, not at all carinate, red-brown or pale green with a dark-green border; flowers erect, imbricate, 7-8 cm long; pedicels very short and stout. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 27-32 mm long, nearly even, drying rugose, dark-punctate, green; petals linear, greenish-white, each bearing 2 spatulate incised scales at the base, exceeding the stamens; pistil exceeding the stamens; ovules very minutely caudiculate. Coma white.