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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Bromeliad
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]
Physical Description
Flowers: Flower Color: inconspicuous, none
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 12-18" tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 18-24" apart.
Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)
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:
Neoregelia
()
- L.B. Smith, 1934
- Cultivar:
Little Rose
- Botanical name: - Neoregelia 'Little Rose'
- Cultivar:
Little Rose
- Genus:
Neoregelia
(
- Subfamily:
Bromelioideae
(
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Neoregelia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 62 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
N. ampullacea (Neoregelia) · N. carcharodon (Neoregelia) · N. carolinae (Bromeliad) · N. carolinae var. tricolor (Blushing Bromeliad) · N. carolinae var. Tricolor f. tricolor (Striped Blushing Bromeliad) · N. compacta (Blushing Bromeliad) · N. concentrica (Neoregelia) · N. concentrica 'Jeffrey Block' (Bromeliad) · N. concentrica 'Variegata' (Neoregelia) · N. crispata (Neoregelia) · N. cruenta (Beach Neoregelia) · N. fosteriana 'Fosperior' (Neoregelia) · N. laevis 'Rafael' (Neoregelia) · N. lilliputiana (Neoregelia) · N. pauciflora (Neoregelia) · N. sanguinea (Neoregelia) · N. spectabilis (Fingernail Plant) · N. tigrina (Neoregelia) · N. variegata (Neoregelia) · N. zonata (Neoregelia) · N. 'Allure' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Angel Face' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Aztec' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Big Red' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Blackie Elmore' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Brazil' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Catherine Wilson' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Donger' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Fireball' (Fireball Neoregelia) · N. 'Franca' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Golden Sunrise' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Green Apple' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Hanibal Lector' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Inca' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Jeannie' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Kahala Dawn' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Kaleidoscope' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Lila' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Little Rose' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Maggie's Pride' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Margaret' (Margaret Neoregelia) · N. 'Martin' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Medium Rare' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Ninja' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Pablito' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Passion' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Peggy's Peach' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Perfection' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Purple Star' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Red Band' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Red Waif' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Rivera' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Rosa Morada' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Rose Blush' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Royal Burgundy' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Sabotage' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Sunshine' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Tossed Salad' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Vulcan' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Yang' (Bromeliad) · N. 'Yellow Devil' (Neoregelia) · N. 'Yin' (Neoregelia)
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Further Reading
- 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 March 27, 2012.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 967229
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]
