Guzmania rhonhofiana Harms
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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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Type
Type. Schultze-Rhonhof 1981 (B, B photo 1207/4), San Carlos de los Colorados, Los Rios, Ecuador, 19 Oct 1935.
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Synonyms
Guzmania roezlii (E.Morren) Mez
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Description
Description - Plant flowering over 1 m high. Leaves 50-75 cm long, minutely and obscurely lepidote; sheaths narrowly ovate, indistinct; blades ligulate, acute to rounded and apiculate, 45-50 mm wide. Scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts ovate, acute, usually remote. Inflorescence lax, bipinnate, 20-56 cm long, glabrous; primary bracts broadly ovate, acute, 2 cm long, much shorter than the sterile 1-3-bracteate bases of the branches; branches ascending, 12-21 cm long, laxly many-flowered. Floral bracts ovate, acute, 6-8 mm long, subcoriaceous, yellow, even to nerved; flowers divergent; pedicels broadly obconic, 3 mm long. Sepals oblong-obovate, obtuse, cucullate, 10 mm long, short-connate, even to nerved, Capsule 25-30 mm long.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in forest, sea level to 1200 m alt, Colombia, Ecuador.
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