Guzmania monostachia (L.) Rusby 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 - Flowering plant 2-4 dm. high; leaves many in a dense rosette, obscurely punctulate-lepidote, soon glabrous; sheaths broadly ovate, brownish; blades ligulate, 2 cm. wide, acute, yellow-green, paler beneath; scape erect, much shorter than the leaves, 4-8 mm. in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts ovate, acute, imbricate, pale green; inflorescence cylindric, acute, 8-15 cm. long, 2-3 cm. in diameter; axis straight, glabrous; floral bracts ovate, acute, membranous, the fertile ones whitish with conspicuous brown or purple longitudinal stripes, about equaling the flowers, the sterile bright red; flowers erect, white, 23-29 mm. long; sepals joined equally for about one fourth their length, 18 mm. long, obovate, even, coriaceous; petals coherent for most of their length, the lobes elliptic, obtuse; stamens included, filaments adherent to the petals for most of their length; capsule cylindric, 2-3 cm. long; coma white.