Glomeropitcaimia penduliflora

Glomeropitcaimia penduliflora (Griseb.) Mez, in Bull. Herb. Boi.ss. II. 5: 232. 1905.
Tillandsia penduliflora Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 597. 1864. Caraguala penduliflora Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. II: 59. 1889. Pilcairnia penduliflora Mez. in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 463. 1896.
Plant about 2 m. high; leaves 6-10 dm. long; sheaths large, narrowly ovate, dark-punctulate-lepidote especially on the inside; blades acute, 7 cm. wide, soon glabrous, reddish toward apex; scape over 15 mm. in diameter; inflorescence very laxly and amply tripinnate, red throughout glabrous; primary bracts lance-ovate, about half as long as the sterile bases of the branches; branches spreading, up to 45 cm. long, bearing 6-8 spikes, the sterile base about 1 dm. long,