Billbergia buchholtzii 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. Berlin Hortus s n (holotype, B; photo F 11335), Atkinson 44 (? clonotypes GH, US); New York Botanical Garden s n (l clonotypes NY, US).
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Description
Description - Leaves to 10 in a slenderly funnelform rosette, pale green, obscurely spotted, to 4 dm long; sheaths large, elliptic, dark reddish above; blades ligulate, broadly rounded, minutely apiculate, to 6 cm wide, finely serrulate. Scape suberect, slender, glabrous, shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts large, elliptic, acute, bright rose. Inflorescence suberect, few-flowered, usually with a single one-flowered branch at base and elsewhere simple, to 12 cm long, 8 cm in diameter, glabrous. Floral bracts minute, triangular; flowers sessile, to 70 mm long. Sepals oblong, emarginate and without a mucro, 25 mm long, green except the dark blue apex; petals to 50 mm long, never spiral, the part above the sepals dark blue, bearing 2 coarsely serrate scales at base; stamens slightly shorter than the petals; ovary cylindric, 20 mm long, sulcate, pale green.