Araeococcus flagellifolius Harms
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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 few, 7-13 dm. long, much exceeding the inflorescence, sheaths forming a slenderly ovoid pseudobulb, entire or subentire, densely brown-lepidote, the inner ones 8-18 cm. long, blades linear, filiform-acuminate, coarsely serrate toward the base, serrulate or entire toward the apex; scape slender; scape-bracts few, lanceolate, 2-12 cm. long; inflorescence bipinnate or rarely simple, subpyramidal, 1-3 dm. long; racemes to 8 cm, long; primary bracts lanceolate, 2-3 cm. long, membranaceous, pale red; floral bracts narrowly triangular, 1-3 mm, long; pedicels spreading, slender, 6-8 mm. long; sepals asymmetric, oblong-ovate, 3 mm. long, obscurely mucronulate; petals 6-9 mm. long.