Aechmea servitensis André
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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 rosulate, 8-12 dm. long, subdensely pale-lepidote, sheaths large, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, blades ligulate, rounded and cuspidate, 2.5-9 cm. wide, becoming glabrous above, laxly or sublaxly sen-ate with dark straight spreading or ascending spines 2-6 mm. long; scape erect, stout; scape-bracts broadly lanceolate, acute, chartaceous, rose, pale-lepidote. the lower remote, the upper imbricate; inflorescence laxly paniculate, 2-5 dm. long, 20 cm. in diameter; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, shorter than the axillary branches, upper primary bracts abruptly and greatly reduced; lower branches 3-parted with long sterile bases, upper branches simple; rhachis flexuous, terete; floral bracts ovate, thin, nerved; sepals asymmetric, free, obscurely mucronulate, 7-8 mm. long; petals 12-14 mm. long, orange-yellow, bearing 2 fimbriate scales near the base; placentae apical; ovules caudate.