Wild Flowering Plants
| Bromeliaceae family Pitcairnia bifrons (Lindley) R.W. Read, Phytologia 19: 277. 1970 Bas.: Billbergia bifrons Lindley (1853). Kawata. Zannanna djab, mawon, gran bwa. Lesser Antillean endemic Quite common terrestrial herb of elfin shrublands. St. Kitts, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Lucia. More branched forms are found in more sheltered spots in the elfin shrublands and on exposed ridges at about 700m elevation in the Mount Gimie area. They may be hybrids between P. bifrons and P. angustifolia. Another explanation is that P. bifrons and P. angustifolia and the intermediate forms are a single variable taxon, P. angustifolia. DNA analysis would be very interesting! |
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