Nidularium innocentii Lem.
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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 very variable in the color of the leaves and bracts, propagating by rhizomes. Leaves up to 20 or more in a dense spreading rosette, 20-60 cm long; sheaths large, broadly elliptic or suborbicular, entire or toward the apex serrulate, pale or somewhat purplish, lepidote with small appressed brown scales; blades ligulate, acute to broadly rounded and apiculate, 40-55 mm wide, glabrous, lustrous, subdensely serrate with spines at least 0.5 mm long. Inflorescence sunk in the center of the rosette; primary bracts large, much exceeding the flowers, broadly ovate, broadly acute or subrounded, apiculate, serrulate, minutely brown-lepidote. Floral bracts broadly ovate or obovate, rounded, apiculate, entire, about equaling the centers of the sepals, membranaceous, whitish, sparsely lepidote; flowers to 6 cm long. Sepals slightly asymmetric, elliptic to very broadly elliptic, acute but not mucronate, 22-30 mm long, connate for 3-9 mm, glabrous, white or somewhat reddish; petals high-connate, white; ovary slenderly obovoid, ca. 1 cm long, the epigynous tube very short; placentae subapical.