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<- Vriesea blokii (Hemsley) Mez[as Vriesea blokii (Hemsley) Mez]
Diagnose: —Bimetralis. Folia crassa, coriacea, lineari-oblonga, usque ad 1m longa, infra medium ad 0,15 m lata, apice abrupte longeque acuminata, recurva, maculis rubro-purpureis ornata. Inflorescentia amplissime panniculata, ad 1,5 m longa; scapo vaginis amplis, coriaceis, sanguineis, ovato-acuminatis, diu persistentibus vestito; ramis recurvis, 20-30 cm longis, flexuosis, sanguineis, usque ad 12-floris; bracteis florigeris ovatis, acutis, quam sepala duplo brevioribus. Flores haud secundi, ad 0,1 m longi; sepalis lanceolatis, 40-50 mm longis, acutis, sanguineis, coriaceis. Petala ad 0,1 m longa, biligulata, lutea, fasciata. Seminum coma ferruginea.

Edited from : in Engler Pflanzenr. IV 32: 405. (1935)