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Guzmania monostachia (L.) Rusby ex Mez

West indian tufted airplant (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Bromeliaceae > Guzmania

Characteristics

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.
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Stemless, 2-4 dm. high. Leaves many, soon glabrous; sheaths broadly ovate, brownish; blades ligulate, acute, 2 cm. wide, yellow-green. Scape erect, short. Scape-bracts imbricate, ovate, acute, pale green. Inflorescence simple, cylindric, acute, 8-15 cm. long, 2-3 cm. thick, sterile toward apex. Floral bracts imbricate, ovate, acute, membranous, the fertile ones pale with brown stripes, about equaling the flowers, the sterile bright red. Flowers 23-29 mm. long. Sepals 18 mm. long, obovate, broadly obtuse, coriaceous, equally connate for about one fourth their length. Petals white, high-connate, the lobes elliptic, obtuse. Capsule cylindric, 2-3 cm. long. Coma white.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3 - 0.4
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Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-11

Usage

Uses environmental use
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 7 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
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Images

Guzmania monostachia unspecified picture

Distribution

Guzmania monostachia world distribution map, present in Bahamas, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:115178-2
WFO ID wfo-0000432362
COL ID 3HNF5
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Synonyms

Guzmania clavata Tillandsia clavata Tillandsia comosa Tillandsia gymnophylla Tillandsia monostachia Tillandsia pachycarpa Guzmania comosa Guzmania laxa Guzmania maculata Guzmania platysepala Guzmania sympaganthera Guzmania tricolor Pourretia sympaganthera Guzmania monostachia Guzmania monostachia var. alba Guzmania tricolor var. cuspidata Guzmania tricolor var. variegata Guzmania monostachia var. variegata Guzmania grandis Guzmania monostachia var. monostachia
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