Vriesea simplex (Vell.) Beer
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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 - Plant 4-7 dm. high with the inflorescence extended; leaves 10-12 in an infundibuliform rosette, 3-4 dm. long, sheaths broadly elliptic, 7--10 cm. long, minutely lepidote, blades linear-oblanceolate, broadly acute or rounded and apiculate, 15-35 mm. wide, flat, obscurely lepidote beneath, concolorous; scape decurved, very slender; scape-bracts erect, broadly elliptic, apiculate, chartaceous, red with yellow or green apices; inflorescence very lax, 2-3 cm. long, 8-12-flowered, glabrous; axis flexuous to strongly geniculate; floral bracts broadly ovate, 35-50 mm. long and more than half as wide, completely enfolding the base of the flower and its margins overlapping, carinate toward the apex, chartaceous; pedicels slender, 8-20 mm. long; sepals elliptic, obtuse, 3-4 cm. long, usually much exceeding the bracts; petals 10-15 mm. longer than the sepals, yellow; stamens exserted.