Guzmania musaica

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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]

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]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,524 meters (0 to 8,281 feet).[3]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Tillandsia musaica Linden

Notes

Publishing author : Mez Publication : Monogr. Phan. [A.DC. & C.DC.] 9: 898 1896 [Jan 1896]

Similar Species

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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Further Reading

• Addisonia: colored illustrations and popular descriptions of plants. New York: New York Botanical Garden, 1916-[1964]. url .
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1913. url p. 154, p. 324.
• Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with ge New York [etc.]The Macmillan company, 1900-02. url p. 992.
• Phytologia. 13 1966 Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 138, p. 317.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 2010.
• Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.
• Bennet, B. C. 1992. The Florida bromeliads: Guzmania monostachia. J. Bromeliad Soc. 42: 266--270.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5837658
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-247600
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:123040-1
• MoBot NameID: 4300925
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 645159

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. Mean = 163.400 meters (536.089 feet), Standard Deviation = 606.330 based on 78 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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