Aechmea veitchii 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 - Stoloniferous, about 1 meter high; leaves 12-17 in a loosely cyathiform rosette, nearly straight, 3-10 dm, long, sheaths short and indistinct, blades ligulate, abruptly acute, apiculate, pungent, 4-6 cm. wide, glabrous and pale green above with spots of dark green, covered beneath with fine appressed cinereous scales, subdensely serrulate, broadly channeled; scape erect, stout; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous, acute or acuminate, spinulose-serrate; inflorescence simple with flowers many-ranked, densely spicate, cylindric or slenderly conic, 1-4 dm, long, 30-55 mm. in diameter; floral bracts lance-ovate, pungent, 12-15 mm. long, bright red, glabrous above, sparsely white-furfuraceous beneath; flowers suberect, 2 cm. long; sepals asymmetric, acute, pungent, white with the apex rose, free; petals fugacious, ligulate, obtuse, barely exserted, bearmg 2 oblique denticulate scales near the base; stamens included, the second series short-connate with the petals; ovary stoutly obconic, glabrous, white; placentae apical; ovules caudate.