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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 POLYCEPHALA Mez & Werckle
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fedde Rep. Spec. Nov. 14:254. 1916.
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Synonym
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Chirripoa solitaria Suessenguth in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. 72:293, p1. 4, Abb. II. 1942.
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Description
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Over 1 m. high. Leaves 5-10 dm. long; sheaths small, dark castaneous; blades acuminate, to 45 mm. wide, green, subglabrous, rigidly coriaceous. Scape stout. Scape-bracts foliaceous, strict, densely imbricate. Inflorescence many-flowered, cylindric, laxly bipinnate, 3-4 dm. long. Primary bracts broadly ovate, the lower ones suberect, exceeding the spikes and with a long acuminate apex, the upper spreading, equaling or shorter than the spikes and apiculate. Spikes densely strobilate, globose, 20- to 25-flowered, 4-6 cm. long, the lower short-stipitate, the upper sessile. Floral bracts broadly elliptic, emarginate, exceeding the sepals, convex, coriaceous, nerved, glabrous. Pedicels short. Sepals obtuse, 16 mm. long, connate for 2 mm., coriaceous.
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Distribution
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Costa Rica, Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: valley of the upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, vicinity of Monte Lirio, alt. 1300-1900 m., Seibert 208.
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Elevation
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1300-1900 m.
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