Ananas ananassoides (Baker) L.B.Sm.
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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 - Flowering plant over 1 meter high; leaves many, more the 16 dm. long, sheaths densely ferruginous-lepidote, blades linear, long-acuminate, rarely over 35 mm. wide, subdensely serrate with antrose spines, green, minutely white-lepidote; scape slender, soon glabrous; scape-bracts large, subfoliaceous; inflorescence subcylindric, apical coma small at anthesis bit becoming greatly enlarged; floral bracts broadly elliptic, acuminate, 15-20 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, pungent, serrulate; sepals broadly elliptic, 7 mm. long, petals 13-17 mm. long, red or purple; fruit slightly enlarged after anthesis, scarcely edible, readily breaking from the scape; seeds numerous.