The Bromeliaceae are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana.
Neoregelia is a genus of epiphytic flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae, native to South American rainforests. The genus name is for Eduard August von Regel, Director of St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens in Russia (1875–1892).
Aechmea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae. The name comes from the Greek aichme, meaning "spear". Suggested pronunciations include EEK-me-ə and eek-MEE-ə. Aechmea comprises eight subgenera and around 250 species distributed from Mexico through South America and the Caribbean. Most of the species in this genus are epiphytes.
Araeococcus is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. It is native to northern South America, Central America and Trinidad.
Orthophytum is a genus in the plant family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.
Hohenbergia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. It is native to the West Indies, the Yucatán Peninsula, and northern South America.
Tillandsia subg. Anoplophytum is a subgenus of the genus Tillandsia.
Hoplocryptanthus caracensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil. It was first described in 1992 as Cryptanthus caracensis.
Rokautskyia caulescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil. It was first described in 1998 as Cryptanthus caulescens.
Rokautskyia fernseeoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil. It was first described by Elton Leme in 1996 as Cryptanthus fernseeoides.
Rokautskyia pseudoscaposa is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil. It was first described by Lyman Bradford Smith in 1955 as Cryptanthus pseudoscaposus.
Rokautskyia roberto-kautskyi is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil. It was first described by Elton Leme in 1991 as Cryptanthus roberto-kautskyi.
Hylaeaicum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, native to tropical northern South America. The taxon was first described by Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule in 1935 as a subgenus of "Aregelia". It was later treated as a subgenus of Neoregelia, before being raised to a full genus in 2021, a status accepted by both Plants of the World Online and the Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads.
Rokautskyia sanctaluciae is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil. It was first described in 2008 as Cryptanthus sanctaluciae.
Hoplocryptanthus tiradentesensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to Brazil. It was first described by Leme in 2007 as Cryptanthus tiradentesensis.
Forzzaea warasii is a plant species in the genus Forzzaea. This species is endemic to Brazil. It was formerly placed in Cryptanthus.
Forzzaea is a genus of eu-bromelioids in the family Bromeliaceae, native to the Atlantic coastal forest of Brazil, and described in 2017.
Hoplocryptanthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It was formerly treated as the subgenus Hoplocryptanthus of the genus Cryptanthus.
Rokautskyia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, native to eastern Brazil. The genus was first established in 2017, and is placed in subfamily Bromelioideae.
