Aechmea tillandsioides (Mart. ex Schult.f.) Baker
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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 - Leaves 5-12 in a funnelform rosette, 3-5 dm. long, exceeding the inflorescence, sheaths large, broadly elliptic, sometimes purple, blades ligulate, acuminate with a long slender terminal mucro, 2-4: cm. wide, pale-lepidote especially beneath, bearing spines to 2.5 mm. long; scape erect, slender, white-flocculose becoming glabrous; scape-bracts imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate, spinose-serrate, red; inflorescence usually bipinnate; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, exceeding the spikes; spikes densely 4-12-flowered, oblong, compressed, to 15 cm. long, 15-18 mm. wide; rbachis more or less white-flocculose; flornl bracts broadly elliptic or obovate, mucronate, carinate, glabrous, equaling the sepals, subcoriaccous; sepals free, slightly asymmetric, elliptic, mucronulate, to 7.5 mm. long; petals mucronulate, 16 mm, long, bearing 2 fimbriate scales above the base; ovary subglobose, epigynous tube evident; placentae apical; ovules long-caudate.