Guzmania rhonhofiana Harms

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Guzmania rhonhofiana Harms

  • Description

    Description - Leaves 50-75 cm. long, minutely and obscurely lepidote, sheaths narrowly ovate, indistinct, blades ligulate, acute to rounded and apiculate, 45-50 mm. wide; scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts ovate, acute; inflorescence 20-56 cm. long, glabrous; primary bracts broadly ovate, acute, 2 cm. long, much shorter than the sterile 1-3-bracteate bases of the branches; branches ascending, 12-21 cm. long, many-flowered; floral bracts ovate, acute, 6-8 mm. long, subcoriaceous, yellow, nerved; flowers divergent; pedicels broadly obconic, 3 mm. long; sepals oblong-obovate, short-connate; capsule 25-30 mm. long.