Guzmania

• Authority

  Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

• Family

  Bromeliaceae

• Scientific Name

  Guzmania Ruiz & Pav.

• Type

  Type species. Guzmania tricolor Ruiz 8c Pavon, Fl. Peruv. Chil. 3: 38, pl. 261. 1802.

• Synonyms

  Caraguata, Devillea, Massangea, Sodiroa, Schlumbergera, Thecophyllum, Chirripoa, Guzmania tricolor Ruiz & Pav.

• Description

  Description - temless or rarely caulescent herbs. Leaves densely polystichous, entire. Scape usually conspicuous. Inflorescence mostly bipinnate or simple, its branches polystichous-flowered. Flowers perfect. Sepals free to high-connate, symmetric or nearly so. Petals naked, their claws distinct from the blades and agglutinated in a tube; stamens equal, more or less agglutinated to the petals; ovary superior; style elongate; ovules numerous; capsule septicidal; seeds with coma basal, straight, usually brown.