Catopsis sessiliflora (Ruiz & Pav.) Mez
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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
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Description - Plant 1-3 dm. high; leaves 4-13 in a funnelform rosette, 8-20 cm. long, sheaths about as long as the blades but scarcely wider, blades curving outward, ligulate, 12-25 mm. wide, flat, narrowly scarious-margined; scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, remote, broadly elliptic, apiculate; inflorescence simple or few-branched, lax, to 11 cm. long, glabrous; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, much shorter than the naked sterile base of the spike; spikes divergent, 2-9 cm. long, lax; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, much exceeded by the sepals, thin, nerved; flowers suberect, perfect; sepals asymmetric, suborbicular, subchartaceous, nerved, wrinkled when dry; petals lance-ovate; ovary ovoid, style very short; capsule ovoid, distinctly short-beaked, 12 mm. long.