Guzmania berteroniana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Mez

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Guzmania berteroniana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Mez

  • Type

    Type. Bertero s n (holotype B), without exact locality, Puerto Rico.

  • Synonyms

    Caraguata berteroniana Schult. & Schult.f., Devillea speciosa Bertero & Schult.f., Tillandsia caraguata D.Dietr., Caraguata grandiflora Baker

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, flowering to 4 dm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, about 4 dm long; sheaths ovate, inconspicuous, obscurely brown-punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acute or acuminate, 5 cm wide, pale-green, glabrous. Scape erect, much shorter than the leaves, glabrous; scape-bracts erect and densely imbricate, elliptic, the lower ones foliaceous, the upper ones dark-red and bracteiform. Inflorescence simple, many-flowered, about equaling the leaves, densely cylindric, to 25 cm long and 4 cm in diameter, acute, sterile toward apex. Floral bracts erect, very densely imbricate, much exceeding the sepals, broadly elliptic, the lower acuminate, the upper apiculate, bright-miniate, glabrous, membranaceous; flowers subsessile, to 6 cm long, bright-yellow, definitely exceeding the bracts. Sepals very broadly elliptic, obtuse, 22 mm long, connate for 2 mm, glabrous, subcoriaceous, striate; corolla-lobes elliptic, obtuse, subspreading; stamens 4 mm shorter than the petals. Capsule subprismatic, acute, 3 cm long; coma white.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial and epiphytic in forest, 390-1200 m alt, Panama, Republica Dominicana, Puerto Rico.

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