Billbergia minuta Mez[as Billbergia minuta Mez]

Diagnose: —Folia 10-12 in rosulam apertam vix tubulosam ordinata, exteriora saltem mediaque recurva, rigida, intimo fere inermi excepto margine spinis ad 1 mm longis horrida, exteriora anguste intima late linearia, in apicem subpungentem sensim acutissima, usque ad 0,24 m longa, haud vittata. Inflorescentia nutans, simplicissima laxe subracemosa, perpauci- vel pauciflora, glaberrima; rhachi geniculata; bracteis florigeris minutis, squamiformibus, subovatis, pedicellis brevissimis medio adnatis. Flores ad 50 mm longi, glabri; sepalis roseis apice violaceis, ad 15 mm longis, optime rotundatis, late linearibus. Petala viridia margine late violacea, 38 mm longa, apice rotundata, deflorata porrecta. Antherae 6 mm longae. Ovarium viride, glaberrimnm, haud sulcatum, ad 10 mm longum.

Translated by Butcher from: Mez 1935. (protologue) Bromeliaceae (part 1-4) in Engler, A. (ed) Das Pflanzenreich.