Guzmania brasiliensis Ule
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Ule 5427 (holotype B, F photo 11543), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Jan 1901.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 1.5 m high. Leaves densely rosulate, to 75 cm long; sheaths broadly elliptic, dark brown; blades ligulate, acuminate, 20-25 mm wide, green, glabrous, subpapyraceous. Scape erect, to 1 m long, its bracts more or less foliaceous, imbricate. Inflorescence laxly bipinnate from 3-6 branches or rarely simple; primary bracts ovate, apiculate, much shorter than the branches but exceeding the short sterile base; branches spreading, sublaxly 20-40-flowered, to 25 cm long. Floral bracts ovate, acute, straight at apex, exceeded by the sepals, thin; flowers suberect to spreading, short-pedicellate. Sepals lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, 15-22 mm long, connate to 8 mm, coriaceous; petals acute, about 3 cm long, pale yellow. Capsules slenderly cylindric, to 35 mm long; coma of the seeds red-brown.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in forest, 125-760 m alt, Amazonian Brazil and adjacent Colombia and Venezuela.
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