Puya clava-herculis

Inflorescences

Puya clava - herculis is a plant of the family Bromeliaceae ( Bromeliaceae ).

The distribution area is located in Páramos in Ecuador and the Colombian department of Nariño at 3350-4200 meters altitude. It was first described by Carl Christian Mez and Luis Sodiro in 1904.

Description

The appearance of Puya clava - herculis dominant Flower stem is between one and one and a half meters tall and can reach up to four inches in diameter. His conclusion is the doubly pinnate Inflorescence whose ellipsoidal or cylindrical shape has a diameter of four inches and a length of 17 centimeters reached. The surface is scaled brownish. The lance-shaped primary bracts are entire. Your tips excelling the wool of the inflorescence. two to four of the actual flowers are on small branches of the inflorescence. The bracts of the flowers tower above the blue-green sepals and a little similar to the primary bracts. Overall, they are, however, slightly smaller than the primary one. The flower stalks are pressed and short. The leathery petals are 2.5 to 2.7 inches long and pointed.

The leaves are 30 to 40 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. They have a short, ovate leaf sheath. While the top of the leaf is glabrous, the lower surface between the leaf veins is staffed with white scales. The edges are slightly serrated and have plump curved towards the leaf, six to nine millimeters long, brown spines.