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Canistrum fragrans

Description

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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

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Aechmea eburnea (E.Morren) Baker
  2. Aechmea fusca Baker
  3. Aechmea rosea (E.Morren) Baker
  4. Aechmea viridis (E.Morren ex C.Morren) Baker
  5. Billbergia canephora Baker
  6. Canistrum binotii Mez
  7. Canistrum eburneum E.Morren
  8. Canistrum fuscum (Baker) E.Morren ex Baker
  9. Canistrum lindenii Mez
  10. Canistrum lindenii forma exiguum Reitz
  11. Canistrum lindenii forma humile Reitz
  12. Canistrum lindenii forma magnum Reitz
  13. Canistrum lindenii forma parvum Reitz
  14. Canistrum lindenii var. pehnkii Reitz
  15. Canistrum lindenii forma procerum Reitz
  16. Canistrum lindenii var. roseum (E.Morren) Reitz
  17. Canistrum lindenii var. viride (E.Morren ex C.Morren) Reitz
  18. Canistrum roseum E.Morren
  19. Canistrum viride E.Morren ex C.Morren
  20. Edmundoa ambigua (Wand. & Leme) Leme
  21. Edmundoa lindenii Leme
  22. Edmundoa lindenii var. rosea (E.Morren) Leme
  23. Guzmania fragrans Linden
  24. Nidularium ambiguum Wand. & Leme
  25. Nidularium latifolium Baker
  26. Nidularium lindenii Regel

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Govaerts R., 21-Jun-2005.

Similar Species

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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

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Last Revised: August 29, 2008