inflorescence a large lax panicle; branches lax-flowered, reaching a foot in length, the lower com¬pound; floral bracts ascending, oblong, strongly ribbed, an inch long. flowers: calyx with ovary 1 1/4 in; long; sepals lanceolate, 2–3 times the length of the ovary, conspicuously mucronate.Edited from : Baker 1889. (protologue) Handbook of the Bromeliaceae .