Ananas

This article is about the plant genus. For the municipality in Tocantins state Brazil, see Ananás, Tocantins. For other uses, see Anana.

Ananas
Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:	Bromelioideae
Genus:	Ananas Mill.
Synonyms [1]
AnanassaLindl. PseudananasHassl. ex Harms in H.G.A.Engler

Ananas teddi er ananas genus in the family Bromeliaceae. ^[1] It is native to South America. The genus contains Ananas comosus, the pineapple. ^[2]

Species

The genus Ananas includes only two species: ^{[2] [3]}

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Native Distribution
	Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.	Pineapple	East of the Andes, from northern South America to northern Argentina. [2]
	Ananas macrodontes E.Morren	False Pineapple	Coastal Brazil and basins of Parana and Paraguay rivers to northern Argentina. [2]

Gallery

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  Pineapple plantation
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  Ananas comosus, habitat, Suriname
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  A pineapple in a garden in Martinique (Caribbean Sea)

References

1. "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org.
2. Bartholomew, D. P.; Paull, Robert E.; Rohrbach, K. G. (2002). The Pineapple: Botany, Production, and Uses. CABI. pp. 23–28. ISBN   9780851999791.
3. Govaerts, Rafaël; d'Eeckenbrugge, Geo Coppens (2015). "Synonymies in Ananas (Bromeliaceae)". Phytotaxa. 239 (3): 273–279. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.239.3.8 . ISSN   1179-3163.

External links

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