Bromelia sylvestris

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Bromeliaceae

Herbs or rarely shrubs , epiphytic, lithophytic, or terrestrial . Leaves spirally arranged , usually rosulate, sessile, simple , veins parallel, base dilated , sheathing , margin often spinose serrate or sometimes entire. Inflorescence terminal or lateral , scapose or sessile, a panicle, raceme , spike, or head , sometimes reduced to solitary, pseudolateral flowers; bracts usually brightly colored and conspicuous . Flowers bisexual or sometimes functionally unisexual , 3-merous. Sepals and petals each 3, distinct , free or basally connate ; petals often brightly colored, basal margin with a pair of scalelike appendages . Stamens 6, in 2 whorls of 3; filaments free, connate, or collectively or individually adnate to petals; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Gynoecium of 3 carpels united to form a compound , 3-loculed, superior or very often partly or wholly inferior ovary ; ovules few to usually ± numerous in each locule; placentation axile . Style terminal and often 3-parted; stigmas papillose . Fruit a berry or less often a septicidal capsule, or seldom compound and fleshy . Seeds usually winged or plumose ; endosperm mealy ; embryo small to fairly large.

About 50 genera and 2000--2600 species: mainly tropical America, except for Pitcairnia feliciana (A. Chevalier) Harms & Mildbraed in tropical W Africa; one species (introduced ) in China.[1]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Agallostachys sylvestris (Willd. Ex Link) Beer

Notes

Publishing author : Willd. ex Sims Publication : Bot. Mag. t. 2392

Similar Species

Members of the genus Bromelia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. antiacantha (Beach Bromelia) · B. balansae (Heart of Flame) · B. balansae 'Variegata' (Variegated Hearts of Flame) · B. humilis (Ground Bromelia) · B. nudicaulis (Nakedstem Livingvase) · B. pinguin (Pinguin) · B. plumieri (Plumier's Bromelia) · B. pyramidalis (Foolproof Plant)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world: including the structural and economic classifications of fibers / by Charles Richards Dodge. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1897. url p. 209, p. 96.
• A review of the references to the Hortus malabaricus of Henry Van Rheede Van Draakenstein [sic] Swansea: Printed at the Cambrian-Office, by Murray and Rees, 1839. url p. 5.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 218.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information. Additional Series. Royal Gardens, Kew. 2 1901 [Kew, Surrey: Royal Botanic Gardens], 1898-1936; url p. 109.
• Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica. Kingston, Dept. of Agriculture, Jamaica. url p. 242.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 9 1882 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 60.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 909.
• Cordage fibres: their cultivation, extraction and prepartaion for market, by H. R. Carter. London, J. Bale, Sons & Danielsson, limited, 1909. url p. 69.
• Curtis's botanical magazine. 50 1823 London; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.] url , , p. 166, p. 30, p. 40.
• Cyclopedia of farm crops, New York, The Macmillan company, 1922. url p. 674.
• Cyclopedia of farm crops: a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada / edited by L.H. Bailey. New York: Macmillan, 1922, c1907. url p. 291.
• Fibres from plants, indigenous and introduced, eligible for industrial culture and experiment in Victoria, Melbourne, R. S. Brain, government printer, 1894. url , .
• Flora of Guatemala / by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark. 24 1958 Chicago: Chicago Museum of Natural History, 1958. url fig. 69, page 392, fig. 70, page 394, p. viii.
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 221.
• Flora of the Aguan valley and the coastal regions near La Ceiba, Honduras, by T. G. Yuncker. 9 1940 [Chicago]1940. url p. 266.
• Hand-list of tender momocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. London, Printed for H. M. S. O., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897. url p. 53.
• Hand-list of tender monocotyledons, excluding Orchideae, cultivated in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 1897. LondonPrinted for H.M. Stationery Off. by Eyre and Spottiswoode1897 url p. 53.
• Handbook of flower pollination based upon Hermann Müller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects'; tr. by J.R. Ainsworth Davis. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1906. url p. 317.
• Handbook of flower pollination: based upon Hermann Mu?ller's work 'The fertilisation of flowers by insects' / Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906-09. url .
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 61.
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 175.
• Notes on agave and furcraea in India (Dict. ec. pr., vol.1, A.602-638; vol.3, F.749) by J. R. Drummond and D. Prain, with a glossary. Calcutta, The Bengal secretarial book depot, 1906. url p. 129, p. 17.
• Notes on useful plants of Mexico. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1899 url p. 243.
• Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture. .. Washington: G.P.O., 1863-1889. url p. 500, p. 604.
• Science-gossip. Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, [1894]-1902. url p. 366.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 126 1956 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url figs. 125-126 , p. 251, p. 253, p. 255.
• The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade. Chicago: American Florist Company, [1885-1931] url p. 702.
• The Annual of scientific discovery: or, Year-book of facts in science and art. Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850- url p. 100.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 252.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 17 1880 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 34, p. 38, p. 55, p. 586.
• The fibre bearing plants of Florida. Being a description of the Agave sisalana sansivieria, Bromelia sylvestris, pineapple, Urena lobata and ramie plants. Together with methods of propagation, cultivation and extraction of the fibres. By Charles W. Parsons. .. Pub. and issued by the Plant system. Savannah, The Morning News Print, 1895. url , p. 32.
• Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 190.
• Tropical fibres: their production and economic extraction. By E. G. Squier. New York, Scribner & co., 1861. url p. 37, p. 39.
• Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8567061
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15279758
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:122405-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1033076-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1210189

Footnotes

1. Wei-liang Ma & Bruce Bartholomew "Bromeliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 18. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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