Cryptanthus

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Read about Cryptanthus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Cryptanthus (Greek, for hidden flower). Bromeliaceae. Brazilian epiphytal bromeliads, differing from Aechmea and Billbergia (which see for culture) in the tubular calyx and the dense heads of flowers nearly sessile amongst the leaves.

Leaves crowded in a rosette, recurved-spreading. spinulose-serrate: fls. in a terminal head, nearly buried beneath the bracts; petals oblong, joined at the base; stamens attached to corolla-tube.—Monogr. by Mez (who recognizes 8 species) in DC. Monogr. Phaner. 9 (1896); by some, all are considered to be forms of one species.

C. nitidus, Bull. A recent importation from Brazil, described as a stemless species with sessile dark olive-green Lvs., marked with a band of cream-color each side of the midrib. L. H. B. George V. Nash. CH


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