Canistrum

• Authority

  Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

• Family

  Bromeliaceae

• Scientific Name

  Canistrum

• Type

  Type. Canistrum aurantiacum E. Morren, Belg. Hortic. 23: 257, pl. 15. 1873.

• Synonyms

  Mosenia, Mosenia sicarius Lindm., Canistrum aurantiacum E.Morren, Tillandsia cyathiformis Vell., Canistrum aurantiacum E.Morren

• Description

  Description - Perennial, mostly epiphytic herbs. Leaves rosulate, armed. Scape evident. Inflorescence compound, densely corymbose, involucrate with the bracts covering all but the apices of the flowers. Flowers short-pedicellate or subsessile; perfect. Sepals free or nearly so; petals free, appendaged; stamens included; pollen biporate or multiporate; ovary wholly inferior; ovules obtuse or short-caudate, numerous. Fruit scarcely enlarged from the ovary; seeds many, subfusiform.