Aechmea brevicollis L.B.Sm.
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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 - Stemless, long-stoloniferous; leaves few, subdistichous, appressed-white-lepidote, sheaths forming a slenderly ovate pseudobulb 13-19 cm. long, entire, blades ligulate, acute, abruptly narrowed at the base, 9-31 cm. long, 16-35 mm. wide, flat, laxly serrate with spines 2-3 mm. long, the outer blades greatly reduced; scape slender, almost wholly included in the leaf-sheaths; scape-bracts elliptic, acute, membranaceous; inflorescence dense, few-branched, 4-6 cm. long; primary bracts lanceolate, acute, laxly serrulate, white-flocculose; spikes distichously 5-7-flowered, flexuous, sparsely white-flocculose; floral bracts navicular, much shorter than the ovary, minutely apiculate, entire, thin; flowers suberect, yellow; sepals suborbicular, connate for 1 mm.; petals sublinear, obtuse, cucullate, 10 mm. long, bearing fimbriate scales at the base; ovary 10 mm. long, epigynous tube large, placentae apical, ovules apiculate.