Billbergia
Billbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus, named for the Swedish botanist, zoologist, and anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg, is divided into two subgenera: Billbergia and Helicodea. They are native to forest and scrub, up to an altitude of 1,700 m (5,577 ft), in southern Mexico, the West Indies, Central America and South America, with many species endemic to Brazil.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Bromeliaceae |
| Subfamily: | Bromelioideae |
| Genus: | Billbergia Thunb. |
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They are rosette-forming, evergreen perennials, usually epiphytic in habit, often with brilliantly coloured flowers.[2]
Species
Billbergia pyramidalis
Billbergia pyramidalis
Billbergia vittata Brongniart
- Billbergia acreana H. Luther - Acre
- Billbergia alfonsi-joannis Reitz - from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina
- Billbergia amandae W.Weber - Brazil, but probably extinct
- Billbergia ambigua (L.B.Sm. & Read) Betancur & N.R.Salinas - Antioquia
- Billbergia amoena (Loddiges) Lindley - Brazil
- Billbergia brachysiphon L.B. Smith - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador
- Billbergia bradeana L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia brasiliensis L.B. Smith - Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia buchholtzii Mez - Brazil, but probably extinct
- Billbergia cardenasii L.B. Smith - Bolivia
- Billbergia castelensis E. Pereira - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia chlorantha L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia × claudioi Leme - Brazil
- Billbergia cylindrostachya Mez - Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia dasilvae Leme - Rondônia
- Billbergia decora Poeppig & Endlicher - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Billbergia distachya (Vellozo) Mez - southern Brazil
- Billbergia domingosmartinsis E.Gross - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia elegans Martius ex Schultes f. - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia eloiseae L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Colombia
- Billbergia euphemiae E. Morren - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia formosa Ule - Peru
- Billbergia horrida Regel - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia incarnata (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f. - Peru
- Billbergia iridifolia (Nees & Martius) Lindley - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia issingiana T. Krömer & E. Gross - Bolivia
- Billbergia jandebrabanderi R. Vásquez & Ibisch - Bolivia
- Billbergia kautskyana E. Pereira - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia kuhlmannii L.B. Smith - Brazil, Bolivia
- Billbergia laxiflora L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia leptopoda L.B. Smith - Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia lietzei E. Morren - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia lymanii E. Pereira & Leme - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia macracantha E. Pereira - Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia macrocalyx Hooker - Bahia, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia macrolepis L.B. Smith - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana
- Billbergia magnifica Mez - Brazil, Paraguay
- Billbergia manarae Steyermark - Venezuela
- Billbergia meyeri Mez - Brazil, Bolivia
- Billbergia microlepis L.B. Smith - Bolivia
- Billbergia minarum L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia morelii Brongniart - eastern Brazil
- Billbergia nana E. Pereira - Bahia, Espírito Santo
- Billbergia nutans H. Wendland ex Regel - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
- Billbergia oxysepala Mez - Acre, Ecuador
- Billbergia pallidiflora Liebmann - Mexico and Central America from Sinaloa to Nicaragua
- Billbergia pohliana Mez - Minas Gerais
- Billbergia porteana Brongniart ex Beer - Brazil, Paraguay
- Billbergia pyramidalis (Sims) Lindley - Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana, Lesser Antilles, Cuba; naturalized in Mauritius
- Billbergia reichardtii Wawra - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia robert-readii E. Gross & Rauh - Peru
- Billbergia rosea hortus ex Beer - Trinidad, Venezuela
- Billbergia rubicunda Mez - Suriname
- Billbergia rupestris L.B. Smith - Colombia, Acre
- Billbergia sanderiana E. Morren - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia seidelii L.B. Smith & Reitz - Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia stenopetala Harms - Ecuador, Peru
- Billbergia tessmannii Harms - Peru
- Billbergia tweedieana Baker - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia velascana M. Cardenas - Bolivia
- Billbergia violacea Beer - Guianas, Brazil
- Billbergia viridiflora H. Wendland - Belize, Guatemala, Tabasco
- Billbergia vittata Brongniart - eastern Brazil
- Billbergia zebrina (Herbert) Lindley - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
Cultivars
- Billbergia 'Windii' (B. × windii)
- 'Fantasia' (Billbergia pyramidalis × Billbergia saudersii) Hybridizer: Mulford B. Foster
Fantasia hybrid.
References
- Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bromeliaceae". Encyclopædia Britannica. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 632.
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