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Monocotyledons / Monocotiledóneas
Guzmania monostachia (L.) Rusby ex Mez
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure
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Guzmania monostachia is an epiphytic species of the genus Guzmania. Also known as a "West Indian tufted airplant",[2] this species is native to South America (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela), Central America, the West Indies and Florida.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] The species is also reportedly naturalized in Hawaii.[12]
Guzmania monostachia is notable as it is a facultative CAM species, converting from C3 photosynthesis to CAM under high light treatment or drought stress as a protective measure.[13]
Cultivars[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ "PLANTS Profile for Guzmania monostachia (West Indian tufted airplant) | USDA PLANTS". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture: Natural Resources Conservation Service. 2013. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
- ^ Checklist of Bolivian Bromeliaceae Retrieved 21 October 2009
- ^ BROMELIACEAE DA MATA ATLÂNTICA BRASILEIRA retrieved 22 October 2009
- ^ Checklist of Venezuelan Bromeliaceae with Notes on Species Distribution by State and Levels of Endemism retrieved 3 November 2009
- ^ Bromeliaceae of the United States (excluding Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) retrieved 30 October 2009
- ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
- ^ Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- ^ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
- ^ Martinelli, G., Magalhães Vieira, C., Gonzalez, M., Leitman, P., Piratininga, A. Ferreira da Costa, A. & Campostrini Forzza, R. (2008). Bromeliaceae da Mata Atlântica Brasileira: lista de espécies, distribuição e conservação. Rodriguésia; Revista do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal, Jardim Botânico e Estaçao Biologica do Itatiaya 59: 209-258.
- ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- ^ Starr Environmental, Plants of Hawaii, Guzmania monostachia (West Indian tufted airplant)
- ^ Maxwell, C; Griffiths H; Young AJ (1994). "Photosynthetic acclimation to light regime and water stress by the C3-CAM epiphyte Guzmania monostachia: gas-exchange characteristics, photochemical efficiency and the xanthophyll cycle". Functional Ecology 8: 746–454. doi:10.2307/2390234.
- ^ BSI Cultivar Registry Retrieved 11 October 2009
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Florida plants of this taxon appear to be self fertilizing.
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United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
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Distribucion en Costa Rica: Cordillera de Tilarán, Cerros de Puriscal, Valle del Reventazón, estribaciones de la Cordillera de Talamanca, Valle de la Estrella, Zona Norte, Llanuras de San Carlos y Sarapiquí, Limón, cerros de Escazú (Tarbaca) y Zona Sur, entre 50 y 1850 m. de elevación.
Distribucion General: Sur de Florida, Mesoamérica, norte de Sur América a Perú, Bolivia y Brasil, Antillas.
Epífita.
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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Epífitas, acaules.
Hojas de 16 a 42.5 por 0.8 a 2.1 cm., subcartáceas. Vainas color crema-canela, densamente lepidotas. Láminas liguladas, glabras, de acuminadas a atenuadas. Escapo de 14 a 22 (24) cm., de erecto a curvado-erecto. Brácteas más largas que los entrenudos, usualmente con líneas longitudinales moradas, al menos en las terminales. Inflorescencia de 8 a 17.5 cm., simple, multiflora. Brácteas florales de 2.5 a 4.5 (5) cm., basales, con la misma coloración que la del escapo, las superiores rojas, de membranáceas a subcartáceas, ecarinadas, lisas. Flores erectas, de sésiles a subsésiles. Sépalos de 1.2 a 1.8 cm., de verdes a verde-crema, connatos por 3 a 6 mm., coriáceos, ecarinados. Pétalos blancos, casi totalmente connatos. Cápsulas de 2.9 a 3.7 cm. Se reconoce por su inflorescencia simple, con brácteas florales basales color verde claro con líneas moradas y terminales rojas.Renealmia monostachia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 287. 1753
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Isotype for Guzmania monostachia var. alba Ariza-Julia
Catalog Number: US 2229835
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): L. Ariza-Julia
Locality: Hacienda las Palmas Ancho Huaracha., Hispaniola Island, Greater Antilles, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, West Indies
- Isotype: Ariza-Julia, L. 1959. Bull. Bromeliad Soc. 9: 38.
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