Neoregelia eleutheropetala (Ule) L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Plant stoloniferous. Leaves about 30, 50-70 cm long; sheaths 12 cm long, 16 cm wide, dark brown, lustrous beneath; blades ligulate, acute and apiculate, pungent, 6-8 cm wide, green or the innermost red, laxly serrate with dark brown spines 5-7 mm long. Inflorescence many-flowered, compound, 6-8 cm in diameter; outer bracts elliptic with a short purple mucro, 4-5 cm long, 24-32 mm wide, membranaceous, lepidote. Floral bracts lance-ovate, acute, 40 mm long, exceeded by the sepals, lepidote toward the apex; pedicels slenderly obconic, merging imperceptibly with the ovary, 15 mm long. Sepals free, obovate, acute, 21-26 mm long, soon glabrous; petals 35 mm long, white; ovary 15 mm long, glabrous; ovules long-caudate.