Bromeliaceae Juss.

First published in Gen. Pl. [Jussieu] 49. 1789 [4 Aug 1789] (1789)nom. cons.
This family is accepted

Accepted Genera

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • APG IV (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/boj.12385

The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

  • Givnish, T. J., Millam, K. C., Berry, P. E. & Sytsma, K. J. (2007). Phylogeny of adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography of Bromeliaceae inferred from ndhF sequence data. Aliso 23: 3–26.
  • Givnish, T. J., Millam, K. C., Evans, T. M., Hall, J. C., Pires, J. C., Berry, P. E. & Sytsma, K. J. (2004). Ancient vicariance or recent long-distance dispersal? Inferences about phylogeny and South American-African disjunctions in Rapateaceae and Bromeliaceae based on ndhF sequence data. Int. J. Plant Sci. 165 (4 Suppl.): S35–S54.
  • Paul Wilkin (2020). in Timothy Utteridge & Gemma Bramley (eds) The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook, Second Edition. Kew Publishing. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Smith, L. B. & Downs, R. J. (1974–1979). Bromeliaceae. Flora Neotropica 14. Hafner Press, New York.
  • Smith, L. B. & Till, W. (1998). Bromeliaceae. In: K. Kubitzki, J. G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich (eds), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 74–99. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
  • Utley, J. F. & Burt-Utley, K. (1994). Bromeliaceae. Flora Mesoamericana 6: 89–156.
  • Wanderley, M. G. L. & Martins, S. E. (2007). Bromeliaceae. In: M. G. L. Wanderley, T. S. Melhem, S. E. Martins, S. L. Jung- Mendaçolli, G. J. Shepherd & M. Kirizawa (eds), Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo 5: 1–476. Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
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  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Science Photographs

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  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook

    • The Kew Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0