Aechmea contracta (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 - Stoloniferous, 5-8 dm. high with the inflorescence extended; leaves 5-10, subfasciculate, to 85 cm. long, sheaths large, very broadly ovate, sometimes maculate, petioles distinct, linear, 12-15 cm. long, strongly channeled, serrate with spreading teeth 4 mm. long, blades linear-lanceolate, acute, 25-35 mm. wide, laxly serrulate, sparsely lepidote; scape curved, slender, white-flocculose; scape-bracts elliptic, acuminate, membranaceous, serrulate, few and distant below, massed beneath the inflorescence; inflorescence usually simple but rarely digitate with 2-4 spikes, curved; spikes linear, 7-25 cm. long, white-flocculose; rhachis geniculate, excavated next the flowers; floral bracts distichous or subtetrastichous, ovate, entire, from barely exceeding the ovary to nearly equaling the sepals, convex; flowers 26-35 mm, long; sepals free, asymmetric, suboblong, truncate-apiculate, 5-8 mm. long; petals ligulate, apiculate, yellow, bearing 2 fimbriate scales near the base; stamens included; ovary terete, constricted at the apex, 7-10 mm. long; epigynous tube short; placentae apical; ovules caudate.