Overview
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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]
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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Poales
()
- Small, 1903
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Bromeliad Family
- Subfamily:
Bromelioideae
()
- Genus:
Aechmea
()
- Ruiz & Pavón, 1794, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
pubescens
- Baker
- Botanical name: - Aechmea pubescens Baker
- Specific epithet:
pubescens
- Baker
- Genus:
Aechmea
(
- Subfamily:
Bromelioideae
(
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 21-Jun-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Aechmea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 61 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. aquilegia (Aechmea) · A. azurea (Aechmea) · A. blanchetiana (Aechmea) · A. blumenavii (Aechmea) · A. bromeliifolia (Bromeliad) · A. bromeliifolia var. angustispica (Aechmea) · A. chantinii (Amazonian Zebra Plant) · A. chantinii 'Black Ebony' (Bromeliad) · A. chantinii 'Variegata' (Bromeliad) · A. chlorophylla (Bromeliad) · A. coelestis (Bromeliad) · A. disticantha (Bromeliad) · A. fasciata (Silver Vase Bromeliad) · A. fasciata var. purpurea (Silver Vase Bromeliad) · A. fasciata 'Primera' (Silver Vase Bromeliad) · A. fasciata 'Sangria' (Aechmea) · A. fosteriana rupicola (Lacquered Wine Cup) · A. friederike (Aechmea) · A. fulgens (Aechmea) · A. gamosepala (Bromeliad) · A. lindenii (Bromeliad) · A. lindenii var. makoyana (Aechmea) · A. lingulata (West Indian Livingvase) · A. luddemanniana (Aechmea) · A. magdalenae var. quadricolor (Bromeliad) · A. mariae-reginae (Bromeliad) · A. mariae-reginae 'Variegata' (Aechmea) · A. mexicana (Bromeliad) · A. mulfordii (Bromeliad) · A. mulfordii 'Jubilee' (Bromeliad) · A. nudicaulis (Bromeliad) · A. orlandiana 'Ensign' (Aechmea) · A. ornata (Bromeliad) · A. ornata var. nationalis (Bromeliad) · A. pectinata (Bromeliad) · A. pedicellata 'Nelwyn' (Aechmea) · A. pineliana (Bromeliad) · A. pineliana var. minuta (Bromeliad) · A. politii (Aechmea) · A. racinae (Aechmea) · A. ramosa (Aechmea) · A. recurvata (Bromeliad) · A. smithiorum (Bromeliad) · A. tillandsioides (Aechmea) · A. variegata (Variegated Bromeliad) · A. variegata 'Chantinii' (Variegated Bromeliad) · A. victoriana (Aechmea) · A. victoriana var. discolor (Aechmea) · A. zebrina (Bromeliad) · A. 'Bert' (Variegated Aechmea) · A. 'Blue Tango' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Burgundy' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Del Mar' (Dwarf Blue Tango) · A. 'Electra' (Aechmea) · A. 'Foster's Favorite' (Foster's Favorite Lacquered Wine Cup) · A. 'Galaxy' (Aechmea) · A. 'J C Superstar' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Patricia' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Samurai' (Aechmea) · A. 'Starbrite' (Starbrite Bromeliad) · A. 'Star of Linda' (Aechmea)
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Further Reading
- Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 213.
- Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 831.
- Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 149.
- Honduran mosses collected by Paul C. Standley, by Edwin B. Bartram. Chicago, 1929. url p. 365.
- I. Supplement to the flora of Barro Colorado island, Panama [by] Leslie A. Kenoyer and Paul C. Standley. 4 1929 Chicago, 1929. url p. 147.
- Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 15, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:
- Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
- Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
- , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
- SysTax, SysTax
- University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU, Herbarium WU
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8555804
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-218199
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15278900
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:121790-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 121790-1
- MoBot NameID: 4300898
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 605618
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]
