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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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Species
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GUZMANIA ANGUSTIFOLIA (Bak.) Wittm.
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Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 11:62. 1889.
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Synonym
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Caraguata angustifolia Baker in Gard. Chron. II. 22:616. 1884. Guzmania Bulliana Andre in Rev. Hortic. 58:324. 1886. Guzmania caulescens Mez & Sodiro in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5:112. 1905.
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Description
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Stem from quite short to about 2 dm. long. Leaves densely imbricate, 8-30 cm. long, green above, purplish beneath; sheaths distinct, elliptic, densely brown- punctulate; blades linear-triangular, acuminate, 10 mm. wide, suberect or some- what spreading, punctulate-lepidote. Scape slender, short. Inflorescence simple, few-flowered, thick-fusiform, up to 65 mm. long and 40 mm. thick, sterile toward apex. Floral bracts ample, ovate-elliptic, acute or subacuminate, erect, barely shorter than the petals at anthesis, membranaceous, bright red with dark tips. Flowers subsessile. Sepals elliptic, obtuse, 15-20 mm. long, membranaceous, glabrous, connate for 3 mm. Petals bright yellow, 7 cm. long, connate in a slender tube for 6 cm., the free lobes sub- elliptic, obtuse. Stamens included; filaments con- nate with the petals for nearly their whole length. Capsule prismatic, acute, 28 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUt: Mount Chiriqui, Pfau 230 (Mez!). DARIEN: Mount Pirrii, alt. 1500 m., Goldman I882; Cana-Cuasi Trail, Real District, alt. 1650 m., Terry 1544, 1579, I598.
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