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.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.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Scopoli, 1760
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Bromeliales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
()
- A.l. De Jussieu, 1789, Nom. Cons.
- Bromeliad Family
- Genus:
Canistrum
()
- Specific epithet:
amazonicum
- Mez
- Botanical name: - Canistrum amazonicum Mez
- Specific epithet:
amazonicum
- Mez
- Genus:
Canistrum
(
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
(
- Order:
Bromeliales
(
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Canistrum amazonicum (Baker) Mez
- Karatas amazonica
- Karatas amazonica Baker
- Nidularium amazonicum (Baker) Lindm. & E. Morren
- Wittrockia amazonica
Notes
Publishing author
: Mez Publication
: Fl.
Bras. (Martius) 3(3): 249 1891Place of publication: C.
F. P. von Martius, Fl. bras. 3(3):249. 1894
Name
verified on 14-Oct-1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-Feb-2007
Similar Species
Members of the genus Canistrum
There are approximately 39 species in this genus:
C. 'Big Emma' · C. alagoanum · C. amazonicum · C. aurantiacum · C. auratum · C. binoti · C. camacaense · C. camacaensis · C. cyathiforme · C. cyathiformis · C. eburneum · C. exiguum · C. fosterianum · C. fragrans · C. fuscum · C. giganteum · C. guzmanioides · C. ingratum · C. lanigerum · C. leopardinum · C. lindeni · C. lindeni var. roseum · C. lindeni var. viride · C. lindenii (Canistrum) · C. lindenii 'Roseum' · C. lindenii 'Viride' · C. lindenii (Regel) Mez var. roseum (E.Morr.) L.B.Sm. forma humile Reitz · C. lindenii var. lindenii · C. lindenii var. roseum · C. montanum · C. perplexum · C. pickelii · C. purpureum · C. regnelli · C. roseum · C. sandrae · C. seidelianum · C. triangulare · C. viride
Bibliography
- Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- Smith, L. B. & R. J. Downs. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). In: Organization for Flora Neotropica, ed., Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14(3):1729.
- St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii) [accepts].
- Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.
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Notes
Contributors
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 24, 2008)
- Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5828405
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1197466
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:122423-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 8849
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 122423-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1210214
