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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: Amazonian forest
to low Andean forest (250–1,500 m
).[2]
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
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:
napoensis
- L.B.Sm. & M.A.Spencer
- Botanical name: - Aechmea napoensis L.B.Sm. & M.A.Spencer
- Specific epithet:
napoensis
- 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(2): 98 (1992), nom. nov.: 1992
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
- Baensch, U. and Baensch, U. 1994. Blooming Bromeliads. Tropic Beauty, Bahamas.
- 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.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. Aechmea napoensis. 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
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7150510
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-218124
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:961770-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 961770-1
- IUCN ID: 43224
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026825
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]
