Abromeitiella Mez
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (1): 1-658. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
TYPE. Abromeitiella pulvinata Mez, Bot. Archiv. 19: 460. 1927.
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Synonyms
Meziothamnus, Lindmania (Azorellopsis) Hauman
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Description
Description - Low perennial plants forming great cushions or polsters. Leaves very densely imbricate along the short stems, sparsely lepidote; sheaths ample; blades triangular, not at all contracted at base, stiff, sparsely spinose-serrate. Scape none. Flowers 1-3, fasciculate at the ends of the stems, subsessile, perfect. Sepals convolute, free, more or less asymmetric, glabrous; petals convolute, free, much exceeding the sepals, each bearing a single basal appendage, free after anthesis; stamens included or slightly exserted; filaments free, elongate; anthers dorsifixed slightly above the base; pollen grains longitudinally sulcate; ovary superior; ovules numerous, short-caudate. Capsule pyriform, septicidal and slightly loculicidal; seeds fusiform, bicaudate.