Guzmania sanguinea (André) André ex Mez
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Stemless, the flowering plant about 2 dm. high, stout and compact; leaves 15-18 in a cyathiform rosette, 2-3 dm. long; sheaths scarcely broader than the blades, very densely brown-lepidote; blades ligulate, 3 cm. wide, broadly acute to rounded-apiculate, rigid when dry, all or only the inner ones bright red; inflorescence 7-12-flowered; involucral leaves shorter than the others but otherwise much the same; floral bracts not at all cucullate, exceeding the sepals, membranaceous; flowers erect, 7 cm. long; pedicels slender, about 5 mm, long, angled; sepals elliptic, broadly obtuse, 16 mm. long, subcoriaceous but thinner toward the apex, glabrous, even, slightly lustrous; petals coherent in a slender yellow tube for most of their length, the free lobes spreading broadly ovate, 8 mm. long, white; filaments adherent to the petals almost throughout, anthers projecting from the throat of the corolla but exceeded by the lobes; capsule acuminate, 40-45 mm. long.