Guzmania lychnis L.B.Sm.
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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. Foster 2045 (holotype GH), Alto da Cruz, above Encano, Narino, Colombia, 1 Nov 1946.
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Description
Description - Plant long-caulescent, flowering shoot 9 dm high. Leaves rosulate, 4-6 dm long, densely brown-lepidote beneath, white-lepidote above; sheaths elliptic, large; blades spreading, ligulate, acute, flat, 4 cm wide. Scape erect or ascending; scape-bracts divergent, foliaceous, densely imbricate. Inflorescence cylindric, 25 cm long; primary bracts spreading, imbricate, dull maroon with green apices, the lower ones subfoliaceous, but not reaching the center of the inflorescence, the upper broadly ovate, acute; fascicles few-flowered. Floral bracts elliptic, slightly shorter than the sepals, membranaceous, densely appressed-lepidote; flowers subsessile. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 23 mm long, membranaceous, densely lepidote; petals linear, obtuse, 4-5 cm long, yellow.
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Distribution
Páramo cloud forest, 2200-3300 m alt, Venezuela to Ecuador.
Venezuela South America| Táchira Venezuela South America| Ecuador South America| Loja Ecuador South America|