Aechmea nudicaulis (L.) Griseb.
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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 - Plants very variable in proportions, 3-7 dm. high; leaves numerous in a dense fasciculate rosette, 3-10 dm. long, sheaths large, elliptic, forming an urceolate pseudobulb, purple or castaneous, densely and finely brown-lepidoto, blades broadly obtuse and apiculate, 6-10 cm. wide, coriaceous, densely pale lepidote beneath, glabrous above, spinose-serrate with coarse black teeth up to 4 mm. long; scape slender, erect or arching, white-floccose; scape-bracts imbricate, congested below the inflorescence, elliptic, acute, red; inflorescence cylindric, fertile throughout, 5-25 cm. long, pale-floccose-lepidote, becoming glabrous; floral bracts minute or sometimes wanting; flowers 22 mm. long; sepals very asymmetric, 5-10 mm. long, free; petals ligulate, acute, 12 mm. long, yellow, bearing 2 fimbriate scales; ovary subglobose, the epigynous tube conspicuous; placentae central; ovules short-caudate.