Contains 6 genera and 22 accepted taxa overall.
This family is completely databased for all specimens.
Characteristics
BROMELIACEAE
Monocot
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Classification
POALES
BROMELIACEAE
Genera
| Genus | Common Name | Taxa Count | Herbarium Specimens | Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billbergia | FOOLPROOFPLANT | 1 | ||
| Bromelia | BROMELIA | 1 | ||
| Catopsis | STRAP AIRPLANT | 3 | ||
| Dyckia | SAWBLADE | 1 | ||
| Guzmania | TUFTED AIRPLANT | 1 | ||
| Tillandsia | AIRPLANT | 15 |
Identification Key
1. Leaf unarmed, entire (mostly native species, a few non-native)
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1. Leaf margin with prickles, sometimes weak, minute, or sparse (all non-native, some species with entire leaves)
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2. Leaves usually grayish, densely covered in minute scales (mostly native spp.)
2. Leaves usually green, glabrous or with few microscopic scales, or partly whitish and covered with chalky powder
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3. Inflorescence usually strongly distichous or secund (non-native spp.)
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3. Inflorescence usually spirally arranged, or flowers few or solitary (native spp.)
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4. Flowers spaced or somewhat densely packed, most or at least some subtending bracts nearly completely free or only partially overlapping adjacent bracts
4. Flowers very densely packed, most subtending bracts overlapping adjacent ones for half or more of their length
5. Floral bracts inconspicuous, reduced, much smaller than the flowers or fruits; seed appendage apical, folded at maturity
5. Floral bracts conspicuous, as large as the flowers and fruits or nearly so; seed appendage basal, straight at maturity
6. Leaves narrow, grass-like
6. Leaves broad, relatively stiff
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7. Inflorescence bracts inconspicuous, smaller than the flowers; ovary superior; fruit a capsule; seeds winged
7. Inflorescence bracts usually conspicuous and larger than the flowers; ovary inferior; fruit fleshy or leathery, a berry or compound; seeds without an appendage
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8. Petals naked
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8. Petals appendaged; inflorescence sessile or pedunculate
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9. Inflorescence sessile or pedunculate, usually not accumulating water; filaments forming a tube and joined to the center of the petals
9. Inflorescence sessile, embedded in the leaf rosette, sometimes accumulating standing water; filaments not forming a tube, the petals free
10. Inflorescence with an apical leaf rosette which may form a new plant; ovaries fused with each other and with the fleshy bracts to form a compound fruit
10. Inflorescence lacking an apical leaf rosette; ovaries distinct
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11. Flowers pedicellate; sepals connate
11. Flowers sessile or pedicellate; sepals free
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12. Inflorescence simple or compound; sepals mucronate or pungent, or if blunt then small and the ovules long-caudate; petals mostly erect, spreading, to weakly recurved
12. Inflorescence simple; sepals unarmed or soft-apiculate; petals erect to recurved
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13. Flowers sessile or pedicellate; petals often strongly recurved and coiled or zygomorphic
13. Flowers sessile; petals mostly erect, spreading, to weakly recurved