Aechmea germinyana (Carrière) Baker
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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 20-30 in a spreading rosette, often more than 1 meter long, subchartaceous, sheaths ovate, distinct, large, densely and finely appressed-lepidote, blades ligulate, subobtuse with a broad pungent brown mucro, 3-7 cm. wide, closely serrulate, appressed-lepidote beneath; scape stout, erect; scape-bracts imbricate, lance-eliiptic, green, pungent, serrulate; inflorescence simple, many-flowered, ovoid to cylindric, 5-28 cm. long, 4-7 cm. in diameter, bearing a coma of sterile bracts at the apex; floral bracts densely imbricate, ovate-elliptic, slightly shorter than the mature flowers, scarlet, appressed-lepidote when young, becoming subglabrous; flowers about 32 mm. long; sepals strongly asymmetric, subelliptic, mucronulate, glabrous, free; petals about twice as long as the sepals, acute, white; stamens included, the second series connate with the petals up to the free part of the scales; anthers sublinear, 6 mm. long, mucronulate; ovary 6 mm. long, 3-angled; epigynous tube wanting; style about equaling the stamens; berry globose, 7 mm. in diameter; seeds subfusiform, 3 mm. long.