Bromelia

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bromelia

  • Description

    Genus Description - Large terrestrial, stoloniferous herbs. Leaves rosulate, narrowly linear, with spiny margins and a spine-tipped apex. Scapes very short to elongate; inflorescences racemose, capitate or paniculate; scape bracts membranous, large, overlapping. Flowers bisexual, sessile to shortly pedicellate. Sepals free or partly connate, continuous into a hypanthium; petals connate at base, convolute; stamens 6, shorter than the petals, the filaments connate at base into a short tube adnate to the petals, the anthers basifixed; ovary inferior, with several ovules. Fruit a leathery berry; seeds few to many, small, dark brown.

  • Distribution

    A genus of 47 species occurring in Central America, the West Indies, and South America.

    Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|