Aechmea penduliflora 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 5-7 dm. long, thin, sheaths conspicuous, ovate, brown-lepidote especially beneath, blades ligulate, not constricted at base, abruptly acute, apiculate, 2-4 cm. wide, pale-lepidote beneath, soon glabrous, subentire or armed toward the base with fine teeth 1 mm. long; scape erect to decurved, 3-5 mm. in diameter, soon glabrous; scape-bracts erect, the lower remote, the upper massed beneath the inflorescence, lanceolate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, membranaceous, bright red; inflorescence paniculate, bipinnate or the lower branches divided, subdensely ellipsoid, 7-15 cm, long, fertile throughout, soon glabrous; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, equaling or exceeding the branches, the upper much reduced; spikes suberect to spreading, 35 mm. long, distichously 6-10-flowered, internodes 4-5 mm. long; floral bracts suborbicular, 2-5 mm. long, equaling the ovary at anthesis, thin, nerved; flowers erect; sepals asymmetric, subovate, obtuse, entire or obscurely mucronulate, free or subfree; petals 13 mm. long, bearing 2 fimbriate scales above the base; ovary ellipsoid or subglobose, much enlarged in fruit, epigynous tube short; placentae apical.