Neoregelia eleutheropetala (Ule) L.B.Sm.
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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 - Stoloniferous; leaves about 30, 5-7 dm. long, sheaths 12 cm. long, 16 cm. wide, dark brown, lustrous beneath, blades ligulate, acute and apiculate, pungent, 6-8 cm. wide, green or the innermost red, laxly serrate with dark brown spines 5-7 mm. long; inflorescence many-flowered, compound, 6-8 cm. in diameter; outer bracts elliptic with a short purple mucro, 4-5 cm. long, 24-32 mm. wide, membranaceous, lepidote; floral bracts lance-ovate, acute, 40 mm, long, exceeded by the sepals, lepidote toward the apex; pedicels slenderly obconic, merging imperceptibly with the ovary, 15 mm. long; sepals free, obovate, acute, 21-26 mm. long, soon glabrous; petals 35 mm. long, white; ovary 15 mm. long, glabrous.