Guzmania eduardi 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 - Leaves rosulate at the end of the stout caudex, 4-7 dm. long, much exceeding the inflorescence, sheaths elliptic, 10 cm. long, scarcely wider than the blades, covered with minute pale appressed scales, dark castaneous toward the base, blades ligulate, acute, minutely pale-lepidote beneath; scape erect, from very short to 3 dm. long; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, the lower elliptic, acute, the highest ovate, red; inflorescence densely digitate from about 10 spikes; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts; spikes fusiform, 5-8 cm, long, few-flowered; floral bracts densely imbricate, elliptic, obtuse, 32 mm. long, pale green or yellow, thin; pedicels 5 mm. long; sepals elliptic, 26 mm, long, high-connate, thin; petals 4 cm, long, yellow or white, the lobes spreading, elliptic.