Aechmea longicuspis 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 over 8 dm. long, blades ligulate, acute with a stout dark terminal cusp, 8-10 cm. wide, coriaceous, rigid, cinereous-lepidote between the nerves beneath, becoming glabrous above, laxly serrate with dark uncinate spines 7 mm. long; scape densely white-flocculose; scape-bracts dense, lanceolate, acute, spinose-serrate, rose, white-lepidote; inflorescence densely cylindric, obtuse, 18 cm, long, 55 mm. in diameter without the petals, densely white-lepidote; lowest primary bracts like the scape-bracts, the others greatly reduced; branches 1-3-flowered, dense; floral bracts very broad, asymmetric, entire, the terminal mucro to 16 mm. long, the sterile bracts reduced to spines; sepals equally short-connate, strongly asymmetric, 21 mm. long, mucronulate; petals linear, 40 mm. long, yellow, bearing 2 fimbriate scales at the base; ovary obconic, 5-10 mm, long, epigynous tube large.