Billbergia velascana Cárdenas

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Billbergia velascana Cárdenas

  • Type

    Type. Father Lorenzo Hammerschmidt 5486 (holotype, Cárdenas Herbarium), San Ignacio, 500 m alt, Velasco, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Dec 1955.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant flowering 6 dm high. Leaves rosulate, rigid, compressed; blades ligulate, abruptly acute, 6 dm long, 2-5 cm wide, spinulose, gray-green, white-banded. Scape 4 dm long, 8 mm in diameter, densely flocculose; scape-bracts lanceolate, 16-19 cm long, rose. Inflorescence simple, curved, many-flowered; rhachis straight, white-flocculose. Floral bracts ovate, acute, 8 mm long, membranaceous, rose; flowers sessile, 6-8 cm long. Sepals lance-ovate, acute, 12 mm long, green toward base, violet toward apex, flocculose; petals linear-lanceolate, acute, 5 cm long, 6 mm wide, blue, bearing 2 white scales at base; stamens 5 cm long, filaments pale blue, anthers filiform, 2 cm long, undulate; style 5 cm long, dark blue; ovary ovoid-conical, 12 mm long, trigonous, sulcate, white-flocculose; epigynous tube short, narrowed above ovary.

  • Distribution

    Known from the type collection only.

    Santa Cruz Bolivia South America|