851.000 Ananas Mill. - Pineapples
Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005)
A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Description of the genus
Terrestrial herbs; offsets or stolons often present. Leaves in spreading rosettes, linear; margins toothed with a sharp point at the end. Inflorescence an erect, pine-cone-shaped, dense head usually with a tuft of bracts at the top. Flowers sessile, red or violet. Fruit fleshy; apex usually with a tuft of leafy bracts. Worldwide: 8 species in tropical America DRC: 1 taxon. |
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