Bromelia
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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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.
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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|