Monographs Details:
Authority:
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Description - Caulescent or acanlescent herbs of very variable habit; leaves rosulate or fasciculate or distributed along a stem, polystichous or distichous, entire, ligulate or narrowly triangular or hnear; scape usually distinct; inflorescence various, usually of distichous-flowered spikes or sometimes reduced to a single polystichous-flowered spike by the reduction of the spikes to single flowers or rarely the whole inflorescence reduced to a single flower; flowers perfect; 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.
Description - Caulescent or acanlescent herbs of very variable habit; leaves rosulate or fasciculate or distributed along a stem, polystichous or distichous, entire, ligulate or narrowly triangular or hnear; scape usually distinct; inflorescence various, usually of distichous-flowered spikes or sometimes reduced to a single polystichous-flowered spike by the reduction of the spikes to single flowers or rarely the whole inflorescence reduced to a single flower; flowers perfect; 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.