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Bromeliaceae

Index Bromeliaceae

The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of 51 genera and around 3475 known species native mainly to the tropical Americas, with a few species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana. [1]

165 relations: Acanthostachys, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Aechmea, Aechmea fasciata, Albert Gottfried Dietrich, Alcantarea, Americas, Ananas, Andes, Androlepis, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Araeococcus, Arizona, August Grisebach, Aztecs, Édouard André, Basal (phylogenetics), Belgium, Billbergia, Billbergia pyramidalis, Brewcaria, Brocchinia, Bromelain, Bromelia, Bromelioideae, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Canistropsis, Canistrum, Carl Axel Magnus Lindman, Carl Christian Mez, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, Carl Linnaeus, Carl Peter Thunberg, Catopsis, Charles Antoine Lemaire, Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, Charles Jacques Édouard Morren, Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle, Christoph Friedrich Otto, Cladistics, Cloud forest, Connellia, Cottendorfia, Crab, Crassulacean acid metabolism, Cryptanthus, Damselfly, Deinacanthon, Desert, ..., Deuterocohnia, Diceratobasis macrogaster, Disteganthus, Dyckia, Ecuador, Edmundoa, Eduandrea, Eduard August von Regel, Emil Hassler, Encholirium, Endemism, Epiphyte, Family (biology), Fascicularia, Fernseea, Florida, Flowering plant, Fosterella, Genus, Glomeropitcairnia, Greigia, Guiana Shield, Guzmania, Guzmania lingulata, Hechtia, Hermann Harms, Hipólito Ruiz López, Hohenbergia, Hohenbergiopsis, Houseplant, Inca Empire, Invertebrate, Jamaica, Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, John Gilbert Baker, John Lindley, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, Juan Ignacio Molina, Julian Alfred Steyermark, Julius Hermann Schultes, Karl Koch (botanist), Larva, Leaf, Lindmania, List of foliage plant diseases (Bromeliaceae), Lithophyte, Lyman Bradford Smith, Lymania, Maya civilization, Metopaulias, Mezobromelia, Monocotyledon, Mulford B. Foster, N. E. Brown, Navia (plant), Nectar, Neoglaziovia, Neoregelia, Netherlands, Nidularium, Nitrogen, Ochagavia, Ornamental plant, Orthophytum, Ostracod, Ovary (botany), Pepinia, Philip Miller, Photosynthesis, Phytotelma, Pineapple, Pitcairnia, Pitcairnia feliciana, Pitcairnioideae, Poales, Portea, Pseudaechmea, Pseudananas, Puya (plant), Puya raimondii, Quesnelia, Racinaea, Rodolfo Amando Philippi, Ronnbergia, Rosette (botany), Salamander, Sarasota, Florida, Sechura Desert, Sequencia, Spanish moss, Steyerbromelia, Stoma, Subtropics, Succulent plant, Tepui, Terrestrial plant, Texas, The New York Times, Tillandsia, Tillandsia cyanea, Tillandsioideae, Tree frog, Trichome, Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests, Tropics, Ule, Upland and lowland, Ursulaea, Virginia, Vriesea, Vriesea splendens, Werauhia, Werner Rauh, West Africa, Wittrockia. Expand index (115 more) »

Acanthostachys

Acanthostachys is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart FRS FRSE FGS (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist.

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Aechmea

Aechmea is a genus in the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Aechmea fasciata

Aechmea fasciata (silver vase, urn plant) is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family, native to Brazil.

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Albert Gottfried Dietrich

Albert Gottfried Dietrich (8 November 1795 – 22 May 1856) was a German botanist born in Danzig.

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Alcantarea

Alcantarea (named for Dom Pedro d'Alcântara, second Emperor of Brazil) is related to the genus Vriesea of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Ananas

Ananas is a plant genus of the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), native to South America and Central America, which includes the species Ananas comosus, the pineapple.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Androlepis

Androlepis is a genus of epiphytes in the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae, native to Central America and southern Mexico.

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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.

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Araeococcus

Araeococcus is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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August Grisebach

August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer.

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Aztecs

The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521.

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Édouard André

Édouard François André (17 July 1840 – 25 October 1911) was a French horticulturalist, landscape designer, as well as a leading landscape architect of the late 19th century, famous for designing city parks and public spaces of Monte Carlo and Montevideo.

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Basal (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Billbergia

Billbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Billbergia pyramidalis

Billbergia pyramidalis, commonly known as the Flaming torch, is a species of bromeliad that is native to Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana, the Lesser Antilles and Cuba.

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Brewcaria

Brewcaria is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Brocchinia

Brocchinia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Bromelain

Bromelain is an enzyme extract derived from the stems of pineapples, although it exists in all parts of the fresh plant and fruit.

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Bromelia

Bromelia is the type genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Bromelioideae

Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae).

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Canistropsis

Canistropsis is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Canistrum

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Carl Axel Magnus Lindman

Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (6 April 1856 in Halmstad – 21 June 1928) was a Swedish botanist and botanical artist, the son of Carl Christian Lindman and Sophie Fredrique Löhr.

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Carl Christian Mez

Carl Christian Mez (26 March 1866 – 8 January 1944) was a German botanist and university professor.

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Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (April 17th, 1794 – December 13th, 1868) was a German botanist and explorer.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carl Peter Thunberg

Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Catopsis

Catopsis is a genus in the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Charles Antoine Lemaire

Charles Antoine Lemaire (1 November 1800 in Paris – 22 June 1871 in Paris), was a French botanist and botanical author, noted for his publications on Cactaceae.

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Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré

Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (September 4, 1789 – January 16, 1854) was a French botanist.

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Charles Jacques Édouard Morren

Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (2 December 1833 – 28 February 1886), was a Belgian botanist, professor of botany and director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège from 1857-1886.

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Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle

Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (15 June 1746 – 18 August 1800) was an 18th-century French botanist and magistrate.

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Christoph Friedrich Otto

Christoph Friedrich Otto (4 December 1783 – 7 December 1856) was a German gardener and botanist.

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Cladistics

Cladistics (from Greek κλάδος, cládos, i.e., "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor.

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Cloud forest

A cloud forest, also called a water forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, formally described in the International Cloud Atlas (2017) as silvagenitus.

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Connellia

Connellia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Cottendorfia

Cottendorfia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (translit.

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Crassulacean acid metabolism

Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions.

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Cryptanthus

Cryptanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the bromeliad botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Damselfly

Damselflies are insects of the suborder Zygoptera in the order Odonata.

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Deinacanthon

Deinacanthon is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Deuterocohnia

Deuterocohnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae, endemic to South America.

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Diceratobasis macrogaster

Diceratobasis macrogaster is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae endemic to Jamaica.

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Disteganthus

Disteganthus is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Dyckia

Dyckia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Edmundoa

Edmundoa is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Eduandrea

Eduandrea is a monotypic genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Eduard August von Regel

Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born August 13, 1815 in Gotha, died April 15, 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticulturalist and botanist.

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Emil Hassler

Emil Hassler (20 June 1864 – 4 November 1937) (French:Émile Hassler, Spanish: Emilio Hassler) was a Swiss physician, ethnographer, naturalist and botanist well known for his collections and contributions to the description of the flora and culture of Paraguay.

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Encholirium

Encholirium is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Fascicularia

Fascicularia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Fernseea

Fernseea is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae, with two known species, both endemic to Brazil.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Fosterella

Fosterella is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Glomeropitcairnia

Glomeropitcarnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Greigia

Greigia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Guiana Shield

The Guiana Shield is one of the three cratons of the South American Plate.

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Guzmania

Guzmania (tufted airplant) is a genus of over 120 species of flowering plants in the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Guzmania lingulata

Guzmania lingulata (droophead tufted airplant or scarlet star) is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae, native to rainforest habitats in Central America, northern and central South America, southern Mexico and the West Indies.

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Hechtia

Hechtia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Hermann Harms

Hermann August Theodor Harms (16 July 1870, in Berlin – 27 November 1942, in Berlin) was a German taxonomist and botanist.

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Hipólito Ruiz López

Hipólito Ruiz López (August 8, 1754, in Belorado, Burgos, Spain – 1816, in Madrid), or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788.

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Hohenbergia

Hohenbergia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Hohenbergiopsis

Hohenbergiopsis is a genus in the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Houseplant

A houseplant is a plant that is grown indoors in places such as residences and offices.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, "The Four Regions"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Johann Friedrich Klotzsch

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (9 June 1805, Wittenberg – 5 November 1860) was a German pharmacist and botanist.

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John Gilbert Baker

John Gilbert Baker FRS (13 January 1834 – 16 August 1920) was an English botanist.

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John Lindley

John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.

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José Antonio Pavón Jiménez

José Antonio Pavón Jiménez or José Antonio Pavón (April 22, 1754 in Casatejada, Cáceres, Spain – 1840 in Madrid) was a Spanish botanist known for researching the flora of Peru and Chile.

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Juan Ignacio Molina

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Julian Alfred Steyermark

Julian Alfred Steyermark (January 27, 1909 – October 15, 1988) was an American botanist.

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Julius Hermann Schultes

Julius Hermann Schultes (4 February 1804 in Vienna – 1 September 1840 in Munich) was a famous Austrian botanist from Vienna.

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Karl Koch (botanist)

Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (6 June 1809 – 25 May 1879) was a German botanist.

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Larva

A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Lindmania

Lindmania is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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List of foliage plant diseases (Bromeliaceae)

This is a list of diseases of foliage plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae.

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Lithophyte

Lithophytes are plants that grow in or on rocks.

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Lyman Bradford Smith

Lyman Bradford Smith (September 11, 1904 – May 4, 1997) was an American botanist.

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Lymania

Lymania (named for Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist) is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Maya civilization

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its hieroglyphic script—the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas—as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system.

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Metopaulias

Metopaulias is a monotypic genus of fully terrestrial land crabs which do not need to go back to the sea to spawn.

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Mezobromelia

Mezobromelia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Monocotyledon

Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, (Lilianae sensu Chase & Reveal) are flowering plants (angiosperms) whose seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon.

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Mulford B. Foster

Mulford Bateman Foster (December 25, 1888 – August 28, 1978Foster Family Bible) was a botanist known by many as the "Father of the Bromeliad" as he was instrumental in the discovery and introduction of many new species of Bromeliad to the United States.

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N. E. Brown

Nicholas Edward Brown (11 July 1849 Redhill, Surrey – 25 November 1934 Kew Gardens, London) was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents.

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Navia (plant)

Navia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Nectar

Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.

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Neoglaziovia

Neoglaziovia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Neoregelia

Neoregelia is a genus of flowering plants in the bromeliad family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae, native to South American rainforests.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Nidularium

Nidularium is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Ochagavia

Ochagavia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

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Orthophytum

Orthophytum (Greek "ortho".

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Ostracod

Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp.

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Ovary (botany)

In the flowering plants, an ovary is a part of the female reproductive organ of the flower or gynoecium.

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Pepinia

Pepinia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Philip Miller

Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist of Scottish descent.

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Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).

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Phytotelma

Phytotelma (plural phytotelmata) is a small water-filled cavity in a terrestrial plant.

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Pineapple

The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries, also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.

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Pitcairnia

Pitcairnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Pitcairnia feliciana

Pitcairnia feliciana is a plant endemic to central Guinea in West Africa and is the only species of bromeliad not native to the Western Hemisphere.

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Pitcairnioideae

The Pitcairnioideae comprise the terrestrial subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) with over 1000 species in 16 genera.

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Poales

The Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges.

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Portea

Portea is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Pseudaechmea

Pseudaechmea is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Pseudananas

Pseudananas is a monotypic genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Puya (plant)

Puya is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Puya raimondii

Puya raimondii, also known as queen of the Andes (English), titanka (Quechua) or puya de Raimondi (Spanish), is the largest species of bromeliad.

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Quesnelia

Quesnelia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Racinaea

Racinaea is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Rodolfo Amando Philippi

Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist.

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Ronnbergia

Ronnbergia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Rosette (botany)

In botany, a rosette is a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves.

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Salamander

Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Sechura Desert

The Sechura Desert is located south of the Piura Region of Peru along the Pacific Ocean coast and inland to the foothills of the Andes Mountains.

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Sequencia

Sequencia is a monotypic genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Spanish moss

Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is an epiphytic flowering plant that often grows upon larger trees in tropical and subtropical climates, native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America, the southern United States, French Polynesia and the West Indies and is also naturalized in Queensland (Australia).

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Steyerbromelia

Steyerbromelia (named for Julian A. Steyermark, American plant collector, author, and editor) is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae.

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Stoma

In botany, a stoma (plural "stomata"), also called a stomata (plural "stomates") (from Greek στόμα, "mouth"), is a pore, found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs, that facilitates gas exchange.

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Subtropics

The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.

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Succulent plant

In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants that have some parts that are more than normally thickened and fleshy, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.

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Tepui

A tepui, or tepuy, is a table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana.

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Terrestrial plant

A terrestrial plant is a plant that grows on or in or from land.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tillandsia

Tillandsia is a genus of around 650 species of evergreen, perennial flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, native to the forests, mountains and deserts of northern Mexico and south-eastern United States, Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to mid Argentina.

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Tillandsia cyanea

Tillandsia cyanea (common name pink quill) is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family, native to the rainforests of Ecuador.

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Tillandsioideae

Tillandsioideae is a subfamily of plants in the bromeliad family Bromeliaceae.

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Tree frog

A tree frog is any species of frog that spends a major portion of its lifespan in trees, known as an arboreal state.

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Trichome

Trichomes, from the Greek τρίχωμα (trichōma) meaning "hair", are fine outgrowths or appendages on plants, algae, lichens, and certain protists.

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Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forests, are a tropical and subtropical forest biome, sometimes referred to as jungle.

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Tropics

The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Ule

Ule is a German surname.

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Upland and lowland

Upland and lowland are conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level.

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Ursulaea

Ursulaea (named for Ursula Baensch, plant breeder and co-author of ‘Blooming Bromeliads’) is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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Virginia

Virginia (officially the Commonwealth of Virginia) is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Vriesea

Vriesea is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Vriesea splendens

Vriesea splendens or flaming sword is a species of flowering plant in the bromeliad family, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Werauhia

Werauhia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.

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Werner Rauh

Werner Rauh (16 May 1913 in Niemegk – 7 April 2000 in Heidelberg) was an internationally renowned German biologist, botanist and author.

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West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.

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Wittrockia

Wittrockia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromeliaceae

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