Guzmania desautelsii
| Guzmania desautelsii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Bromeliaceae |
| Genus: | Guzmania |
| Species: | G. desautelsii
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| Binomial name | |
| Guzmania desautelsii L.B.Smith & R.W.Read
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Guzmania desautelsii is a species of Bromeliads in the genus Guzmania.[1] A plant native to Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama,[2][3][4] the species was originally described by Robert William Read and Lyman Bradford Smith in 1983.[5][1]
Description
[edit]Guzmania desautelsii flowers at 20–30 cm (7.9–11.8 in) high. The leaves of 30–70 cm (12–28 in) grow in rose-like clusters and are greyish-purple to green.[1] It was first described in 1983 as follows:[1]
PLANT: flowering 2-3 dm high. LEAVES: rosulate, 3-7 dm long, greyish-purple to green beneath, densely punctulate-lepidote throughout becoming less so apically; sheaths distinct, elliptic, ca. 10 cm long; blades ligulate, acute, often acuminate, 3-5 cm wide. SCAPE: erect or ascending, glabrous; scape bracts erect, densely imbricate, the lowest subfoliaceous, the upper subelliptic, acuminate, mostly widely scattered lepidote but densely so apically. INFLORESCENCE: simple, ovoid, ellipsoid or subglobose strobilate, fertile throughout, 7-10 cm long. FLORAL BRACTS: elliptic, to broadly rounded wholly erect and imbricate, thin, chartaceous with membranaceous margins, ca. 4 cm long, exceeding the sepals, orange to scarlet at anthesis, obscurely pale lepidote. FLOWERS: 6-seriate. SEPALS: glabrous, firm, even, coriaceous, obtuse, short-connate, slightly carinate, ca. 20 mm long, wholly covered by the floral bracts. PETALS: white, ca. 28 mm long, barely exserted from bracts, connate for most of their length.
Distribution
[edit]Occurrences of Guzmania desautelsii have been documented in Costa Rica and Panama.[1] This range is also confirmed in records on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility[6] and citizen science efforts.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e ROBERT W. READ; LYMAN B. SMITH (1983). "Guzmania desautelsii A Name for a Formerly Misplaced Species". Journal of the Bromeliad Society. 33 (1): 17–18. ISSN 0090-8738. Wikidata Q107224589.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Luther, Harry E. (1995). "An Annotated Checklist of the Bromeliaceae of Costa Rica". Selbyana. 16 (2): 230–234. ISSN 0361-185X. JSTOR 41759911.
- ^ BSI Journal V33(1), Guzmania desautelsii A Name for a Formerly Misplaced Species Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 8 September 2011
- ^ "Guzmania desautelsii | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ^ "Guzmania desautelsii Read & L.B.Sm". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ^ "Guzmania desautelsii". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
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