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Guzmania monostachia

(Fushs Bromeliad)

Overview

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Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Fushs Bromeliad, West Indian Tufted Airplant

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.[1]

Genus Guzmania

Herbs, usually epiphytic, stemless to rarely caulescent . Leaves many-ranked, usually ligulate , margins entire. Inflorescences 5--many-flowered, many-ranked, mostly 2-pinnate to less commonly single spike, flowers laxly to densely arranged; floral bracts broad, conspicuous , mostly obscuring rachis. Flowers bisexual ; sepals distinct to connate over 1/2 length , usually symmetric ; petals with claws adherent to subconnate petal, forming short tube , blade distinct; stamens usually included , adherent to adnate with petal claws; ovary superior. Capsules cylindric , dehiscent . Seeds with basal, usually tan-brown plumose appendage .

Species ca. 160: widespread in the moist Neotropics.[2]

Physical Description

Species Guzmania monostachia

Plants flowering to 4 dm high. Leaves many, rosulate, spreading , 30--40 cm; sheath pale or darkened toward base , ovate ; blade ligulate , acute. Inflorescences: scape central, erect , shorter than leaves; bracts imbricate, erect; inflorescences densely many-flowered, erect, simple , cylindric , to 15 cm; floral bracts imbricate, most proximal bracts (fertile ) pale green, striped dark green or reddish, distal bracts (mostly sterile ) rose, salmon or nearly white [red or orange in tropical America], ovate, to 2.5 cm, acute. Flowers: sepals basally connate , green, symmetric , 1.4--1.6 cm; petals very slightly spreading, adherent for most of length , white, without petal appendages, 2.2--2.5 cm, apex obtuse ; stamens included , filaments subadnate to petals; stigma included, simple-erect. Fruits 2--3 cm. [source]

Florida plants of this taxon appear to be self fertilizing. [source]

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, December. • Flower Color: dark red, pale green, pink, scarlet

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 6-12" tall.

Habitat

Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America[3].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[4]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Light Shade.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Guzmania monostachya (L.) Rusby Ex Mez • Renealmia monostachia L. • Renealmia monostachia Linnaeus • Tillandsia monostachia (L.) L.

Notes

Basionym : Bromeliaceae Renealmia monostachia L.

Basionym author: (L.)

Basionym: Bromeliaceae Renealmia monostachia L.

Basionym author: (L.)

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 21-Jun-2005

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Guzmania

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

G. acorifolia (Guzmania) · G. berteriana (Bertero's Tufted Airplant) · G. erythrolepis (Bejuco De Sapo) · G. lingulata (Droophead Tufted Airplant) · G. lingulata 'Mt. Blanc' (Guzmania) · G. monostachia (Fushs Bromeliad) · G. monostachia (L.) Rusby ex Mez var. monostachia (West Indian Tufted Airplant) · G. monostachia var. variegata (Varigated Tufted Airplant) · G. musaica (Guzmania) · G. sprucei (Bromeliad) · G. 'Amaranth' (Guzmania) · G. 'Cherry' (Guzmania) · G. 'Graaf van Hoorn' (Guzmania) · G. 'Gwendolyn' (Guzmania) · G. 'Jazz' (Guzmania) · G. 'Kapoho Fire' (Variegated Guzmania) · G. 'Marjan' (Bromeliad) · G. 'Snowball' (Guzmania) · G. 'Symphonic Encore' (Guzmania) · G. 'Tutti Frutti' (Guzmania) · G. 'Wendy' (Wendy Guzmania)

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 24, 2007:

Identifiers

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]
  2. Harry E. Luther, Gregory K. Brown "Guzmania". in Flora of North America Vol. 22 Page 296. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  3. "Guzmania monostachia". in Flora of North America Vol. 22. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  4. Mean = 680.070 meters (2,231.201 feet), Standard Deviation = 792.550 based on 267 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012