Guzmania angustifolia (Baker) Wittm.
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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 - Stem from quite short to about 2 dm. long and branched; leaves densely and evenly ditributed along the stem, 8-15 cm. long, green above, purplish beneath; sheaths distinct, elliptic, densely brownpunctulate-lepidote; blades suberect or slightly spreading, very narrowly triangular, acuminate, punctulate-lepidote; scape slender, almost wholly concealed by the leaves; inflorescence few-flowered, stoutly fusiform, up to 65 mm. long and 40 mm. in diameter, sterile toward the apex; floral bracts ample, ovate-elliptic, acute or subacuminate, erect, much exceeding the sepals, slightly shorter than the flowers at anthesis, membranaceous; flowers subsessile; sepals elliptic, obtuse,15-20 mm. long, membranaceous, glabrous, connate for 3 mm.; petals bright yellow, 7 cm. long, adherent in a slender tube for 6 cm., the free lobes subelliptic, obtuse; stamens 4 mm. shorter than the petals; filaments adherent to the petals for almost their whole length; capsule prismatic, acute, 28 mm. long.