Cottendorfia florida

Cottendorfia florida
Systematics
Commelinids Order : Sweet grass (Poales) Family : Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily : Navioideae Genre : Cottendorfia Type : Cottendorfia florida
Scientific name of the  genus
Cottendorfia
School. & School f.
Scientific name of the  species
Cottendorfia florida
School. & School f.

Cottendorfia florida is the only species of the genus Cottendorfia in the subfamily Navioideae withinthe bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae). Previously they were classified in the subfamily Pitcairnioideae .

description

In Cottendorfia florida is a terrestrial , perennial herbaceous plant that forms sometimes by vegetative propagation stocks.

The grass-like leaves stand together in basal rosettes . The leaf sheaths are only indistinctly developed. The simple leaf blades are up to 1 meter long, 1.2 centimeters wide, narrow-linear and taper into a spike tip. The leaf margin is smooth and unreinforced. The underside of the leaf is densely covered with white scale hairs.

Cottendorfia florida forms a 2 to 4 meter long inflorescence stem. The up to 40 centimeters long, loosely branched, woolly hairy total inflorescence consists of annual, up to 6.5 centimeters long partial inflorescences. The inconspicuous bracts are narrow triangular and the bracts are rarely longer than 2 millimeters. Flower stalks are hardly recognizable. The small, only 7 millimeters long, hermaphrodite flowers are threefold. The three free, broadly ovate, blunt sepals are about 3 mm long and hairless. The left side of each sepal covers the right side of the next. The three free petals are whitish, elliptical and blunt. There are two circles with three free stamens each. Three carpels have become a top permanent ovary grown. The stylus is slim.

The flower formula is: or ${\displaystyle \star \;K_{3}\;C_{3}\;A_{3+3}}$ ${\displaystyle G_{\underline {(3)}}}$

Egg-shaped, tripartite capsule fruits are formed. The narrow seeds have two appendages.

Occurrence

Distribution area is northeastern Brazil on the Guiana Highlands in dry areas in the states of southern Piauí and in Bahia only in the Serra do Sincorá . They thrive on rocky locations at altitudes of around 1200 meters.

Systematics

The genus Cottendorfia was described in 1830 by Julius Hermann Schultes and Joseph August Schultes in JJ Roemer & JA Schultes: Systema Vegetabilium , 7 (2): lxiv, 1193 with the species Cottendorfia florida . The generic name Cottendorfia honors Johann Georg Freiherr Cotta von Cottendorf , a German patron of the natural sciences (1796–1863).

Since molecular genetic studies showed that the subfamily Pitcairnioideae was not monophyletic in its original extent, it was divided into several subfamilies. The subfamily Navioideae was reactivated with the genera Brewcaria , Navia , Sequencia , Steyerbromelia and Cottendorfia . With the exception of Cottendorfia florida , the other species classified here have almost all been placed in the genus Lindmania, reactivated by Lyman B. Smith in 1986, or a few in the genus Fosterella and thus belong to a different subfamily.

No longer belonging to genus:

• Cottendorfia albicans Griseb. → Fosterella albicans (Griseb.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia arachnoidea LBSm., Steyerm. & H.Rob. → Lindmania arachnoidea (LBSm., Steyerm. & H.Rob.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia argentea (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania argentea LBSm.
• Cottendorfia atrorosea LBSm., Steyerm. & H.Rob. → Lindmania atrorosea (LBSm., Steyerm. & H.Rob.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia brachyphylla (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania brachyphylla LBSm.
• Cottendorfia cylindrostachya (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania cylindrostachya LBSm.
• Cottendorfia dentritica LBSm. → Lindmania dendritica (LBSm.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia dyckioides LBSm. → Lindmania dyckioides (LBSm.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia geniculata (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania geniculata LBSm.
• Cottendorfia gracillima LBSm. → Lindmania gracillima (LBSm.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia guianensis (Beer) Klotzsch ex Baker → Lindmania guianensis (Beer) Mez
• Cottendorfia lateralis LBSm. & Read → Lindmania lateralis (LBSm. & Read) LBSm. & H.Rob.
• Cottendorfia longipes LBSm. → Lindmania longipes (LBSm.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia maguirei LBSm. → Lindmania maguirei (LBSm.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia marahuacae LBSm., Steyerm. & H.Rob. → Lindmania marahuacae (LBSm., Steyerm. & H.Rob.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia minor (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania minor LBSm.
• Cottendorfia navioides (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania navioides LBSm.
• Cottendorfia neogranatensis Baker → Fosterella micrantha (Lindl.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia nubigena LBSm. → Lindmania nubigena (LBSm.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia paludosa (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania paludosa LBSm.
• Cottendorfia pearcei Baker → Fosterella pearcei (Baker) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia phelpsiae (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania phelpsiae LBSm.
• Cottendorfia rusbyi Baker ex Rusby → Fosterella schidosperma var. Schidosperma
• Cottendorfia savannensis LBSm. → Lindmania savannensis (LBSm.) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia serrulata (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania serrulata LBSm.
• Cottendorfia stenophylla (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania stenophylla LBSm.
• Cottendorfia steyermarkii (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania steyermarkii LBSm.
• Cottendorfia subsimplex (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania subsimplex LBSm.
• Cottendorfia thyrsoidea (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania thyrsoidea LBSm.
• Cottendorfia tillandsioides (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania tillandsioides LBSm.
• Cottendorfia weddelliana Brongn. ex Baker → Fosterella weddelliana (Brongn. ex Baker) LBSm.
• Cottendorfia wurdackii (LBSm.) LBSm. → Lindmania wurdackii LBSm.

swell

• Harry E. Luther: An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials , 2008 ( June 17, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) in The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Published by The Bromeliad Society International. (PDF file; 314 kB)
• Werner Rauh : Bromeliads - Tillandsias and other culturally worthy bromeliads , Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8001-6371-3
• Harold Robinson: A Monograph on Foliar Anatomy of the Genera Connellia, Cottendorfia, and Navia (Bromeliaceae) , in Smithsonian contributions to Botany , number 2, 1969, pp. 1-41: PDF-Online.
• Thomas J. Givnish, Kendra C. Millam, Paul E. Berry & Kenneth J. Sytsma: Phylogeny, adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography of Bromeliaceae inferred from ndhF sequence data , in Aliso , 23, 2007, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, p 3-26: Online. (PDF file; 2.0 MB)
• Jason R. Grant: An annotated catalog of the generic names of the Bromeliaceae , 1998: Online - About the names of the generic names of the Bromeliaceae. (Section systematics)
• Lyman B. Smith & Robert Jack Downs: Flora Neotropica , Volume 14, Issue 1: Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae) , 1974, Hafner Press, New York, USA. ISBN 0-89327-303-1 : Cottendorfia florida on page 215.
• Lyman B. Smith : Revision of the Guayana Highland Bromeliaceae , in Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden , Volume 73, No. 4, 1986, pp. 689-721.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the names of the bromeliad genera. ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

further reading

• TJ Givnish, JC Pires, SW Graham, MA McPherson, LM Prince & TB Patterson: Phylogeny, biogeography, and ecological evolution in Bromeliaceae: Insights from ndhF sequences. in JT Columbus, EA Friar, JM Porter, LM Prince, & MG Simpson: Monocots: Comparative Biology and Evolution. Poales , Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, 2006, 23, pp. 3-26.

Web links

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