View source for Guzmania monostachia

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|accepted_name=Guzmania monostachia
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Rusby ex Mez
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. L. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle, Monographiae Phanerogamarum
|place=9: 905. 1896 (as monostachya)
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Renealmia monostachia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 287. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Guzmania;Guzmania monostachia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bromeliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Guzmania]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Guzmania monostachia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>flowering to 4 dm high. <b>Leaves</b> many, rosulate, spreading, 30–40 cm; sheath pale or darkened toward base, ovate; blade ligulate, acute. <b>Inflorescences</b>: 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. <b>Flowers</b>: 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. <b>Fruits</b> 2–3 cm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Florida plants of this taxon appear to be self fertilizing.</p><!--
--><p>Varieties 3 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade of one color
|[[Guzmania monostachia var. monostachia|Guzmania monostachia var. monostachia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade longitudinally green-and-white striped
|[[Guzmania monostachia var. variegata|Guzmania monostachia var. variegata]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Guzmania monostachia
|authority=(Linnaeus) Rusby ex Mez
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Renealmia monostachia
|family=Bromeliaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. L. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle, Monographiae Phanerogamarum
|publication year=
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_498.xml
|genus=Guzmania
|species=Guzmania monostachia
}}<!--

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