Nidularium procerum Lindm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Leaves 12-40 in a dense rosette; sheaths large, oblong-elliptic, entire, usually tinged with purple, covered with minute appressed brown-centered scales; blades ligulate, acute or acuminate, slightly if at all narrowed toward base, wholly green, glabrous or subglabrous, subdensely serrate with spines 1 mm long. Scape always evident, to over 20 cm high; scape-bracts foliaceous, very densely imbricate. Inflorescence rather many-flowered; primary bracts very broadly ovate with a narrowly triangular long-attenuate serrulate blade, purple or red toward apex, green toward base, much exceeding the flowers. Floral bracts ovate or elliptic, acute, slightly exceeding the ovary, carinate, membranaceous, serrulate toward apex, pale, sparsely lepidote; flowers to 7 cm long. Sepals symmetric or nearly, elliptic, acute, minutely mucronulate, 23 mm long, connate for 5-6 mm, glabrous; petals connate to within 20 mm of the apex, pale blue; ovary ellipsoid, epigynous tube evident, placentae continuous nearly the whole height of the cell; ovules obtuse.