Comprehensive Description
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tarjonnut North American Flora
Guzmania megastachya (Baker) Mez, in DC Monog. Phan. 9: 928. 1896.
Tillandsia foliosa Griseb. VI. Brit. W. Ind. 597. 1864. Not T.foliosa Mart. & Gal. 1843. Tiilandsia megastachya Baker, Jour. Bet. 26: 46. 1888. Tillandsia magna Baker, Handb. Bromel. 210. 1889.
Stemless, the flowering plant 7 dm. or higher; leaves 5 dm. long; sheaths ovate, brownpunctulate-lepidote; blades linear, 4 cm. wide, acute, obscurely punctulate-lepidote; scape erect, stout; scape-bracts densely imbricate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute; inflorescence manyflowered, subcylindric; primary bracts broadly ovate, acute, 55-80 mm. long, exceeding the axillary spikes; spikes subsessile, corymbose; floral bracts subtriangular, 40 mm. long, nearly equaling to exceeding the sepals, strongly carinate, submembranaceous ; flowers 62 mm. long, subsessile; sepals linear, acute, free, strongly nerved; petals conglutinated into a narrow tube for most of their length, the lobes narrowly elliptic, obtuse ; stamens included ; capsule subclavate, 37 mm. long.
Type locality: St. Vincent.
Distribution: Lesser Antilles.
- bibliografinen lainaus
- Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Guzmania megastachya: Brief Summary
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Guzmania megastachya is a species of plant in the genus Guzmania. It is an epiphyte and is a part of the family Bromeliaceae.
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