Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Synonyms:
Aechmea spicata Mart., Bromelia thyrsiflora Willd., Billbergia mertensii (M.Meyer) Miq., Bromelia mertensii M.Meyer, Aechmea thyrsiflora (Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Schltdl., Aechmea mucroniflora Hook., Hoplophytum mucroniflorum (Hook.) Beer, Hoplophytum spicatum (Mart. & Schult.f.) Beer, Hoplophytum mertensii (M.Meyer) Beer, Hohenbergia mertensii (G.Mey.) Baker, Hohenbergia martii Baker, Hohenbergia mucroniflora (Hook.) Baker, Aechmea wullschlaegeliana Mez, Aechmea humilis Mez
Aechmea spicata Mart., Bromelia thyrsiflora Willd., Billbergia mertensii (M.Meyer) Miq., Bromelia mertensii M.Meyer, Aechmea thyrsiflora (Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Schltdl., Aechmea mucroniflora Hook., Hoplophytum mucroniflorum (Hook.) Beer, Hoplophytum spicatum (Mart. & Schult.f.) Beer, Hoplophytum mertensii (M.Meyer) Beer, Hohenbergia mertensii (G.Mey.) Baker, Hohenbergia martii Baker, Hohenbergia mucroniflora (Hook.) Baker, Aechmea wullschlaegeliana Mez, Aechmea humilis Mez
Description:
Description - Plant very variable, 2-8 dm high. Leaves rather few, rosulate, to 7 dm long, sometimes exceeding the inflorescence, covered with white appressed scales especially beneath; sheaths large, usually distinct, sometimes purplish, entire; blades ligulate, acute, pungent, 1.5-8 cm wide, green, laxly serrate with dark nearly straight spines 1-6 mm long. Scape usually erect, slender; scape-bracts lanceolate, acute, serrulate, bright rose, the upper spreading and massed beneath the inflorescence. Inflorescence bipinnate, many-flowered, terete, lax to dense, wholly fertile, to 35 cm long but often much shorter, 3-5 cm in diameter, white-flocculose, soon glabrous; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, the others smaller than the floral bracts; spikes spreading, densely 2-8-flowered. Floral bracts very broadly ovate or subreniform, enfolding most of the ovary, 5 mm long, mucronate, entire; flowers distichous, suberect, to 13 mm long. Sepals free, strongly asymmetric, to 4 mm long, mucronate; petals ligulate, mucronate, yellow or red, bearing 2 oblong scales at base; ovary ellipsoid, epigynous tube distinct; placentae apical; ovules caudate. Fruit much enlarged from the ovary, blue.
Description - Plant very variable, 2-8 dm high. Leaves rather few, rosulate, to 7 dm long, sometimes exceeding the inflorescence, covered with white appressed scales especially beneath; sheaths large, usually distinct, sometimes purplish, entire; blades ligulate, acute, pungent, 1.5-8 cm wide, green, laxly serrate with dark nearly straight spines 1-6 mm long. Scape usually erect, slender; scape-bracts lanceolate, acute, serrulate, bright rose, the upper spreading and massed beneath the inflorescence. Inflorescence bipinnate, many-flowered, terete, lax to dense, wholly fertile, to 35 cm long but often much shorter, 3-5 cm in diameter, white-flocculose, soon glabrous; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, the others smaller than the floral bracts; spikes spreading, densely 2-8-flowered. Floral bracts very broadly ovate or subreniform, enfolding most of the ovary, 5 mm long, mucronate, entire; flowers distichous, suberect, to 13 mm long. Sepals free, strongly asymmetric, to 4 mm long, mucronate; petals ligulate, mucronate, yellow or red, bearing 2 oblong scales at base; ovary ellipsoid, epigynous tube distinct; placentae apical; ovules caudate. Fruit much enlarged from the ovary, blue.
Distribution:
Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Meta Colombia South America| Vaupés Colombia South America| Caquetá Colombia South America| Amazonas Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Delta Amacuro Venezuela South America| Anzoátegui Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America| Guyana South America| Demerara Guyana South America| Berbice Guyana South America| Essequibo Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America| Ecuador South America| Napo Ecuador South America| Peru South America| San Martín Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| Brazil South America| Roraima Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America| Rondônia Brazil South America| Acre Brazil South America| Amapá Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America| Alagoas Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America|
Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Meta Colombia South America| Vaupés Colombia South America| Caquetá Colombia South America| Amazonas Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Delta Amacuro Venezuela South America| Anzoátegui Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America| Guyana South America| Demerara Guyana South America| Berbice Guyana South America| Essequibo Guyana South America| Suriname South America| French Guiana South America| Ecuador South America| Napo Ecuador South America| Peru South America| San Martín Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| Brazil South America| Roraima Brazil South America| Amazonas Brazil South America| Rondônia Brazil South America| Acre Brazil South America| Amapá Brazil South America| Pará Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America| Alagoas Brazil South America| Bahia Brazil South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America|
Common Names:
Güicundo
Güicundo