Aechmea servitensis André
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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 - Leaves rosulate, 8-12 dm long, subdensely pale-lepidote; sheaths large, broadly elliptic to suborbicular; blades ligulate, rounded and cuspidate, 2.5-9 cm wide, becoming glabrous above, laxly or sublaxly serrate with dark straight spreading or ascending spines 2-6 mm long. Scape erect, stout; scape-bracts broadly lanceolate, acute, chartaceous, rose, pale-lepidote, the lower remote, the upper imbricate. inflorescence laxly paniculate, 2-5 dm long, 20 cm in diameter, nearly glabrous at anthesis, lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, shorter than the axillary branches, upper primary bracts abruptly and greatly reduced; lower branches 3-parted with long sterile bases, upper branches simple; rhachis flexuous, terete. Floral bracts ovate, nearly equaling the ovary at anthesis, thin, nerved. Sepals asymmetric, free, obscurely mucronulate, 7-8 mm long; petals 12-14 mm long, orange-yellow, bearing 2 fimbriate scales near the base; placentae apical; ovules caudate.