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:
Tillandsioideae
()
- Genus:
Vriesea
()
- Lindley, 1843, nom. cons., orth. cons.
- Specific epithet:
inflata
- (Wawra) Wawra
- Botanical name: - Vriesea inflata (Wawra) Wawra
- Specific epithet:
inflata
- (Wawra) Wawra
- Genus:
Vriesea
(
- Subfamily:
Tillandsioideae
(
- Family:
Bromeliaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Bromelianae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Tillandsia inflata (Wawra) Baker • Vriesea Carinata Inflata • Vriesea incurvata Gaudich. var. inflata (Wawra) Mez • Vriesea Incurvata Inflata
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 21-Jun-2005
Similar Species
Members of the genus Vriesea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 26 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
V. carinata (Bromeliad) · V. fosteriana (Rock Bromeliad) · V. fosteriana 'Red Chestnut' (Red Chestnut Vriesea) · V. gigantea 'Nova' (Nova Vriesea) · V. hieroglyphica (Vriesea) · V. kupperiana (Vriesea) · V. macrostachya (Parasita) · V. neoglutinosa (Bromeliad) · V. ospinae var. gruberi (Vriesea) · V. platynema (Bromeliad) · V. regnellii (Bromeliad) · V. ringens (Pirigallo) · V. sintenisii (Barkplant) · V. splendens (Flaming Sword) · V. splendens var. formosa (Vriesea) · V. triangularis (Sword Plant Bromeliad) · V. var. Christiane (Christiane Bromeliad) · V. zamorensis (Vriesea) · V. 'Annie' (Bromeliad) · V. 'Barbara' (Bromeliad) · V. 'Carly' (Bromeliad) · V. 'Charlotte' (Bromeliad) · V. 'Mint Julep' (Mint Julep Bromeliad) · V. 'Splenreit' (Vriesea) · V. 'Splenriet' (Bromeliad) · V. 'Tiffany' (Bromeliad)
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Further Reading
- Handbook of the Bromeliaceae. London, G. Bell & Sons, 1889. url p. 213.
- Phytologia. 13 1966 Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 116, p. 156, p. 289.
- 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 13, 2012.
- 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
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3487779
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-271888
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267374-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 901647
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]
