Bromelia glaziovii Mez
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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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Type
Type. Glaziou 22189 (holotype, B; F, photo 11251), Rio Gama, Goiás, Brazil.
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Description
Description - Plant propagating by rhizomes, flowering 2-3 dm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, not constricted between sheath and blade, 3-5 dm long; outer sheaths short, broadly triangular, covered with coarse linear brown scales, serrate toward apex, inner sheaths large, elliptic; blades recurved, narrowly triangular, attenuate, complicate, 1216 mm wide, laxly serrate with retrorsely curved brown spines 3 mm long, wholly glabrous or covered beneath with a pale membrane of fused scales, inner blades red. Scape 10-15 cm high; scape-bracts like the inner leaves, densely imbricate; inflorescence very densely subcorymbose, 5 cm in diameter; axes densely white-tomentose; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but with short blades. Floral bracts broadly elliptic-oblong, obtuse, carinate, ca 3 cm long, equaling or slightly exceeding the sepals, serrulate, pale, minutely tomentose; pedicels very short. Sepals like the floral bracts but only 20 m long, free, erect; petals erect, slightly exceeding the sepals, obtuse, thick, connate with the filaments for 5-6 mm, bluish rose; stamens included; ovary very short, subcylindric, white-tomentose.
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Distribution
Campos, central Brazil.
Brazil South America| Goiás Brazil South America| Minas Gerais Brazil South America|