Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. 1967. Bromeliaceae of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14: 15-68.
Smith, Lyman B. 1967. Bromeliaceae of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14: 15-68.
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Genus Description - Acaulescent herbs in the Guayana Highland area; leaves rosulate or fasciculate, polystichous, entire, ligulate or narrowly triangular; scape usually distinct; inflorescence of distichous-flowered spikes in the Guayana Highland species; sepals usually symmetric, free, or equally or posteriorly joined; petals free, naked; stamens of various lengths relative to the petals and pistil; ovary superior, glabrous; ovules usually many, caudate; capsule septicidal; seeds erect, narrowly cylindric or fusiform, the plumose appendage white, straight, basal.
Genus Description - Acaulescent herbs in the Guayana Highland area; leaves rosulate or fasciculate, polystichous, entire, ligulate or narrowly triangular; scape usually distinct; inflorescence of distichous-flowered spikes in the Guayana Highland species; sepals usually symmetric, free, or equally or posteriorly joined; petals free, naked; stamens of various lengths relative to the petals and pistil; ovary superior, glabrous; ovules usually many, caudate; capsule septicidal; seeds erect, narrowly cylindric or fusiform, the plumose appendage white, straight, basal.
Discussion:
Allardtia A. Dietr. Allg. Gartenzeit. 20: 241. 1852.
Platystachys K. Koch ex Beer, Bromel. 18, 80. 1857.
Type species: T. utriculata L.
Distribution:
United States of America North America| Central America| South America|
United States of America North America| Central America| South America|