familyBromeliaceae
genusGuzmania
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Flora Peruviana 3: 37. 1802.
Etymology: for A. Guzman, an 18th-century Spanish naturalist
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 22. Treatment on page 296.
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Revision as of 21:31, 5 November 2020
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.
Distribution
Widespread in the moist Neotropics.
Discussion
Species ca. 160 (1 in the flora).