Streptocalyx tessmannii Harms[as Streptocalyx tessmannii Harms]

Diagnose: —Folia valde elongata, e vagina latiuscula late linearia, acuminata, margine spinulosa, basi 3-4cm lata; scapus validiusculus, cum vaginis et bracteis levissime vel vix farinosulus, basi folia lanceolato-linearia acuminata (17-10 cm longa), deinde vaginas breviores latas e basi ovata longe acuminatas internodia superantes (8-4 cm longas), apice inflorescentiam longam panniculatam densam gerens, bracteae ad basin spicularum magnae ovatae longe acuminatae margine breviter spinuloso-denticulatae (inferiores) vel acutae mucronulatae subintegrae (superiores sensim minores), 7-3 cm longae vel summae minores, ut videtur roseo-suffusae; spicae a bracteis latissimis obcelatae, pluri-(7-10)- florae, confertae, 3 cm vel ultra longae; bracteolae florigerae majusculae, flores sessiles vel subsessiles obcelantes, fere calycem aequantes late ovatae (infimae) vel ovato-lanceolatae vel late lanceolatae (superiores), mucronulatae, integrae, 1,5-2 cm longae, 1-1,8 cm latae; sepala inaequalia, rigidula, navicularia, lanceolata, integra, carinulata, brevissime pungenti-mucronata, glabra, circ. 17 mm longa; corolla superne exserta, 30-32 mm longa.

Edited from (16-10-2026): Mez 1935. (protologue) Bromeliaceae (part 1-4) in Engler, A. (ed) Das Pflanzenreich.