Smith 1967a (Article) Guianas
The Bromeliaceae of the Guayana Highland
Author(s):—L.B. Smith
Publication:—Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 14(3): 15-68. (1967)
Abstract:—Herbs in the Guayana Highland species although sometimes very large; leaves spirally arranged, usually basal, simple, entire or spinose-serrate, at least in youth bearing peltate scales serving to collect and hold moisture; inftorescence simple or compound, usually scapose and bearing brightly colored bracts; flowers perfect in all the Guayana Highland species; perianth heterochiamydeous, the segments free or variously joined, trimerous (the sepals very rarely reduced to 2) stamens 6, filaments free or joined to the petals or to each other; ovary superior to inferior, 3-celled; fruit capsular or baccate; seeds naked, winged, or plumose; embryo small, at the base of the mealy enclosperm.
Published names (5):Cottendorfia dyckioides* * synonyms or not accepted names are marked
Cottendorfia longipes*
Navia caurensis
Navia ramosa*
Tillandsia fendleri var. reducta