Interesting Facts
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:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- 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:
Bromelia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
sagenaria
- Arruda
- Botanical name: - Bromelia sagenaria Arruda
- Specific epithet:
sagenaria
- Arruda
- Genus:
Bromelia
(
- Subfamily:
Bromelioideae
(
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Ananas bracteatus (Lindl.) Schult. & Schult. F. Var. sagenarius (Arruda) Bertoni • Ananas Bracteatus Sagenarius • Ananas Sagenaria • Ananas sagenaria (Arruda) Schult. F. • Ananas Sativus Sagenarius • Ananas sativus Schult. & Schult. f. var. sagenarius (Arruda) Bertoni • Ananassa Sagenaria • Ananassa sagenaria (Arruda) D. Dietr.
Notes
Publishing author : Arruda
Similar Species
Members of the genus Bromelia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
B. antiacantha (Beach Bromelia) · B. balansae (Heart of Flame) · B. balansae 'Variegata' (Variegated Hearts of Flame) · B. humilis (Ground Bromelia) · B. nudicaulis (Nakedstem Livingvase) · B. pinguin (Pinguin) · B. plumieri (Plumier's Bromelia) · B. pyramidalis (Foolproof Plant)
More Info
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Further Reading
- A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world: including the structural and economic classifications of fibers / by Charles Richards Dodge. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1897. url p. 59.
- An encyclopædia of agriculture: comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of by J.C. Loudon. London: Longmans, Green, 1871. url p. 200.
- First[-second] annual report of the Geological and agricultural survey of Texas, Houston, A. C. Gray, state printer, 1874-76. url .
- Martin's Natural history / Translated from the thirty-fifth German edition, by Sarah A. Myers; containing two hundred and sixty-two beautifully colored illustrations; First [and second] series. New York: Phinney, Blakeman & Mason, 1861- url p. 343.
- Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 126 1956 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url figs. 125-126 , p. 251.
- The tropical world: aspects of man and nature in the equatorial regions of the globe. LondonLongmans, Green1873 url p. 541.
- 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.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5827204
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36889-2
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 122387-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1210179
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]
