Guzmania roezlii (E.Morren) Mez

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Guzmania roezlii (E.Morren) Mez

  • Type

    Type. Roezl in Morren Hortus s n (clonotype LG, GH photo), upper Río Maranon, Cordillera of Peru, Aug-Sept 1873, cultivated 1878.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia rigidula Baker, Schlumbergeria roezli E.Morren

  • Description

    Description - Plant stemless, flowering 6-10 dm high. Leaves many in a dense crateriform rosette, 4 dm long; sheaths broadly ovate, finely brown-lepidote, concolorous or longitudinally purple-striped; blades ligulate, rounded-apiculate, 25-40 mm wide, glabrous above, very obscurely punctulate-lepidote beneath. Scape erect, slender, exceeding the leaves, glabrous; scape-bracts ovate, obtuse or apiculate, shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence laxly few-branched, glabrous; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, enfolding the sterile bases of the spikes; spikes spreading, elongate with long sterile prophyllate bases, lax or subdense. Floral bracts ovate, narrowly obtuse, shorter than the sepals, even to faintly nerved, green; flowers suberect to spreading, sessile, 23 mm long. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 16-18 mm long, coriaceous, even to faintly nerved, connate for 2 mm; corolla white, its lobes recurved-spreading; stamens and pistil barely exserted.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic and terrestrial in forest, 80-1350 m alt, Colombia to Guyana, Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil.

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