Description
Family Bromeliaceae
Herbs or rarely shrubs
, epiphytic, lithophytic, or terrestrial
. Leaves spirally arranged
, usually rosulate, sessile, simple
, veins parallel, base
dilated
, sheathing
, margin
often spinose
serrate or sometimes entire. Inflorescence terminal
or lateral
, scapose
or sessile, a panicle, raceme
, spike, or head
, sometimes reduced to solitary, pseudolateral flowers; bracts usually brightly colored
and conspicuous
. Flowers bisexual
or sometimes functionally unisexual
, 3-merous. Sepals and petals each 3, distinct
, free
or basally connate
; petals often brightly colored, basal margin with a pair of scalelike appendages
. Stamens 6, in 2 whorls of 3; filaments
free, connate, or collectively or individually adnate
to petals; anthers
2-celled, dehiscing by longitudinal
slits. Gynoecium of 3 carpels united
to form a compound
, 3-loculed, superior or very often partly or wholly inferior ovary
; ovules few to usually ± numerous
in each locule; placentation axile
. Style terminal and often 3-parted; stigmas papillose
. Fruit a berry or less often a septicidal
capsule, or seldom compound and fleshy
. Seeds usually winged
or plumose
; endosperm mealy
; embryo small to fairly large.
About 50 genera and 2000--2600 species: mainly tropical
America, except for Pitcairnia feliciana (A. Chevalier) Harms & Mildbraed in tropical W Africa; one species (introduced
) in China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology: Low Andean forest
(1,000–1,500 m
).[2]
List of Habitats
:1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Liliopsida
()
- Scopoli, 1760
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Poales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
()
- A.l. De Jussieu, 1789, Nom. Cons.
- Bromeliad Family
- Subfamily:
Bromelioideae
()
- Genus:
Aechmea
()
- Ruiz & Pav.
- Specific epithet:
geminiflora
- (Harms) L.B.Sm. & M.A.Spencer
- Botanical name: - Aechmea geminiflora (Harms) L.B.Sm. & M.A.Spencer
- Specific epithet:
geminiflora
- (Harms) L.B.Sm. & M.A.Spencer
- Genus:
Aechmea
(
- Subfamily:
Bromelioideae
(
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Liliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : L.B.Sm. & M .A.Spencer Publication : Phytologia 72: 97 1992 Basionym author: (Harms) Basionym: Bromeliaceae Streptocalyx geminiflorus Philcox
Similar Species
Members of the genus Aechmea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 497 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
A. 'Beyes Giant' · A. abbreviata · A. aciculosa · A. aculeatosepala · A. agavifolia · A. alba · A. alegrensis · A. allenii · A. alopecurus · A. amazonica · A. amicorum · A. amorimii · A. ampla · A. ampullacea · A. andersoniana · A. andersonii · A. andradeae · A. andradei · A. angustifolia · A. 'Ann Vincent' · A. anomala · A. apocalyptica · A. aquilega · A. aquilega var. chrysocoma · A. aquilegia (Aechmea) · A. aquilegia var. chrysocoma · A. aquilegiodes · A. aquilegioides · A. araneosa · A. arenaria · A. aripensis · A. armata · A. augusta · A. aurantiaca · A. aureo-rosea · A. 'Aztec Gold' · A. azurea (Aechmea) · A. bahiana · A. bambusoides · A. barleei · A. basi-lateralis · A. beeriana · A. benrathii · A. bernoulliana · A. 'Bert' (Variegated Aechmea) · A. bicolor · A. biflora · A. billbergioides · A. bituminosa · A. blanchetiana (Aechmea) · A. blanchetiana 'Wally Berg' · A. blanchetii · A. 'Blue Tango' (Bromeliad) · A. blumenavii (Aechmea) · A. bocainensis · A. boliviana · A. brachycaulis · A. brachyclada · A. brachystachya · A. bracteata · A. bracteata (Sw.) Griseb. var. bracteata · A. bracteata var. pacifica · A. brasiliensis · A. brassicoides · A. brevicollis · A. bromeliaefolia · A. bromelifolia · A. bromeliifolia (Bromeliad) · A. bromeliifolia var. albobracteata · A. bromeliifolia var. angustispica (Aechmea) · A. bruggeri · A. burchellii · A. 'Burgundy' (Bromeliad) · A. burle-marxii · A. caerulea · A. caerulescens · A. caesia · A. calatheoides · A. callichroma · A. calyculata · A. campanulata · A. canaliculata · A. candida · A. capitata · A. capixabae · A. cariocae · A. carvalhoi · A. castanea · A. castelnavii · A. cathcartii · A. caudata · A. caudata var. eipperi · A. caudata var. variegata · aechmea chantilli · aechmea chantilli 'black ebony' · A. chantini · A. chantinii (Amazonian Zebra Plant) · A. chantinii 'Red Form' · A. chantinii 'Black Chantini' · A. chantinii 'Black Ebony' (Bromeliad)
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Further Reading
- Gilmartin, A.J. 1972. The Bromeliaceae of Ecuador. Phanerogamarum Monographiae 4: 1-255.
- Luther, H.E. and Sieff, E. 1994. De Rebus Bromeliacearum-I. Selbyana 15: 9-93.
- Manzanares, J.M. 1998. Bromelioideae of Ecuador. National Herbarium of Ecuador (QCNE), Ecuador.
- Smith, L.B. and Spencer, M.A. 1993. Reduction of Streptocalyx (Bromeliaceae: Bromelioideae). Journal of the Bromeliad Society 43(4): 157-159.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
- Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
- Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. Aechmea geminiflora. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
- Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7150502
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-217995
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:963781-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 1201950-
- IUCN ID: 43220
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026821
Footnotes
- Wei-liang Ma & Bruce Bartholomew "Bromeliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 18. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
