Canistrum auratum

• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• Bibliography
• More Info
• Notes

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

Notes

Publishing author : Leme Publication : in Pabstia, 4(3): 2 (1993) 1993

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

• Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.

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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3487980
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-223797
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:973600-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 973600-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1210215

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