Billbergia macrolepis L.B.Sm.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Bromeliaceae > Billbergia

Characteristics

Plant I m. or more long when extended. Leaves to 12 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, large; blades linear-triangular, acuminate, 3 cm. wide, sparsely serrate with nearly straight teeth to 3 mm. long, entire toward apex, densely pale-lepidote, gray-green, marked below with large white spots. Scape decurved, 3-4 mm. thick, sparsely white-floccose at first. Scape-bracts im-bricate, lanceolate, acuminate, to 24 cm. long, membranaceous, white-floccose. Inflorescence simple, cylindric, to 4 dm. long, lax, many-flowered, densely white-farinose. Floral bracts spread-ing or reflexed, narrowly oblong or the uppermost ovate, obtuse and apiculate, to 35 mm. long, all but the uppermost equaling or exceeding the ovary, membranaceous, dark brown when dry. Flowers sessile, suberect to spreading. Sepals symmetric, broadly ovate, broadly acute and apiculate, equal, 10 mm. long, coriaceous, nerved. Petals linear, acute, to 43 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, bronze-green, spirally recurved at anthesis, bearing 2 coarsely crenate scales at base. Ovary subglobose, 15 mm. long, coarsely sulcate with the ridges soon glabrous, epigynous tube 3 mm. long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
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Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 5-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 7 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
Germination luminosity light
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Images

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Distribution

Billbergia macrolepis world distribution map, present in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:33146-2
WFO ID wfo-0000341395
COL ID 5WKWK
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Billbergia macrolepis Billbergia richteriana Billbergia richteriana var. bicolor