Neoglaziovia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Neoglaziovia (new Glaziovia). Bromeliaceae. Two Brazilian plants allied to Billbergia, but with ovules few rather than many in each locule. Plants terrestrial and on rocks, with spiny lvs. that furnish good fiber for ropes. N. variegata, Mez (Bromelia variegata, Air. Bittbergia variegata, R. & S. Dyckia Glaziovii, Baker), the Caroa of Brazil, is 3 ft. or more tall, with glabrous or very minutely lepidote lvs., marked with lighter transverse bars in the living specimen: fls. scarlet. N. concolor, C. H. Wright, the Makimbeira of Brazil, has a very short st.: lvs. uniformly white-lepidote, the younger parts woolly: calyx scarlet and petals violet. .M. 8348.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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