Guzmania angustifolia (Baker) Wittm.
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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 - Stem from quite short to ca 2 dm long and branched. Leaves densely and evenly distributed along the stem, 8-15 cm long, green above, purplish beneath; sheaths distinct, elliptic, densely brown-punctulate-lepidote; blades suberect or slightly spreading, very narrowly triangular, attenuate, 10 mm wide, punctulate-lepidote. Scape slender, almost wholly concealed by the leaves. Inflorescence simple, few-flowered, stoutly fusiform, to 65 mm long and 40 mm in diameter, sterile toward apex. Floral bracts ample, ovate-elliptic, acute or subacuminate, erect, much exceeding the sepals, slightly shorter than the flowers at anthesis, membranaceous; flowers subsessile. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 15-20 mm long, membranaceous, glabrous, connate for 3 mm; petals bright yellow, 7 cm long, adherent in a slender tube for 6 cm, the free lobes subelliptic, obtuse; stamens 4 mm shorter than the petals; filaments adherent to the petals for almost their whole length. Capsule prismatic, acute, 28 mm long.