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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Hechtia
|accepted_authority=Klotzsch
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Allgemeine Gartenzeitung
|place=3: 401. 1835
|year=1835
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Hechtia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bromeliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hechtia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> terrestrial or among or on rocks, caulescent or without evident stems, occasionally stoloniferous. <b>Leaves</b> rosulate, straight to falcate; blade narrowly triangular, margins spinose. <b>Inflorescences</b> lateral [terminal or lateral], many-flowered, simple or compound and paniculate; branches capitate to lax and elongate; floral bracts broad [broad to narrow], conspicuous. <b>Flowers</b> dimorphic, functionally unisexual, staminate and pistillate on different plants; sepals distinct, symmetric; staminate petals distinct or appearing briefly connate basally from adnation of filaments to adjacent petals; stamens included or exserted; filaments adnate [free or adnate] to petals; pistillate petals distinct, triangular or ovate; ovary largely superior to largely inferior. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> narrowly winged to almost wingless, plumose appendages absent.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>The Texas species are unusual in their scaly capsules and flowers with scaly sepals, petals, and ovaries.</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 50 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=burt-utley1987a
|text=Burt-Utley, K. and J. F. Utley. 1987. Contributions toward a revision of Hechtia (Bromeliaceae). Brittonia 39: 37--43.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Staminate flowers with sepals 2.5–4 mm, petals 3.5–4.5 mm; pistillate flowers with sepals 3–4 mm, petals 4.5–5 mm; capsules 6–8.5
|[[Hechtia glomerata|Hechtia glomerata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Staminate flowers with sepals 4.5–5 mm, petals 7.5–9 mm; pistillate flowers with sepals 4.5–7 mm, petals 7.5–9 mm; capsules 8.5–12.5 mm
|[[Hechtia texensis|Hechtia texensis]]
|}
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name=Hechtia
|author=Kathleen Burt-Utley;John F. Utley
|authority=Klotzsch
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=burt-utley1987a
|publication title=Allgemeine Gartenzeitung
|publication year=1835
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_514.xml
|genus=Hechtia
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