Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Bromeliaceae
Bromeliaceae
Description:
Description - Plants solitary or clustered on trees or shrubs. Basal leaves numerous, tufted, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, thin, 1-4 dm. long, acute or acuminate, pale green and whitish-pruinose; flowering stem rather slender, 3-9 dm. high, clothed with small, appressed narrowly lanceolate leaves; inflorescence paniculate; flowers close together or the lower distant; bracts subcoriaceous, ovate to oval, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long; sepals oval, a little longer than the bracts; petals white, oblong, about as long as the sepals; capsule ovoid, 6-10 mm. long.
Description - Plants solitary or clustered on trees or shrubs. Basal leaves numerous, tufted, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, thin, 1-4 dm. long, acute or acuminate, pale green and whitish-pruinose; flowering stem rather slender, 3-9 dm. high, clothed with small, appressed narrowly lanceolate leaves; inflorescence paniculate; flowers close together or the lower distant; bracts subcoriaceous, ovate to oval, obtuse, 6-8 mm. long; sepals oval, a little longer than the bracts; petals white, oblong, about as long as the sepals; capsule ovoid, 6-10 mm. long.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Jamaica South America| South America|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Jamaica South America| South America|