Disteganthus

• Authority

  Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.

• Family

  Bromeliaceae

• Scientific Name

  Disteganthus

• Description

  Genus Description - Terrestrial herbs, caulescent or acaulescent, propagating usually by stolons and rhizomes. Inflorescences mostly more than one, unbranched, borne laterally beneath rosette of leaves. Flowers distinctly pedicellate; sepals markedly connate; petals without ligules on claw, glabrous, free; stamens included; epigynous tube well developed, the sepals, petals, and anthers adnate to the tube.