Alcantarea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Cladus: Commelinids
Ordo: Poales

Familia: Bromeliaceae
Subfamilia: Tillandsioideae
Tribus: Vrieseeae
Genus: Alcantarea
Species: A. abacta – A. acuminatifolia – A. aurantiaca – A. australiana – A. benzingii – A. brasiliana – A. burle-marxii – A. cerosa – A. compacta – A. distractila – A. duarteana – A. extensa – A. farneyi – A. galactea – A. geniculata – A. glaucifolia – A. heloisae – A. imperialis – A. lanceopetala – A. longibracteata – A. lurida – A. martinellii – A. mucilaginosa – A. nahoumii – A. nana – A. nevaresii – A. nigripetala – A. occulta – A. odorata – A. pataxoana – A. patriae – A. recurvifolia – A. regina – A. roberto-kautskyi – A. simplicisticha – A. tortuosa – A. trepida – A. turgida – A. vasconcelosiana – A. vinicolor
Name

Alcantarea (E.Morren ex Mez) Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10: 802. (1929)
Type species: Alcantarea regina (Vell.) Harms

Synonyms

Basionym
Vriesea subg. Alcantarea E.Morren ex Mez in Mart., Fl. Bras. 3(3): 516. 1894.

References

Barfuss, M. H. J., Samuel, R., Till, W. & Stuessy, T.F. 2005. Phylogenetic relationships in subfamily Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae) based on DNA sequence data from seven plastid regions. American Journal of Botany, 92(2): 337–351: DOI: 10.3732/ajb.92.2.337 PDF Reference page.
Gomes‐da‐Silva, J. & Souza‐Chies, T.T. 2018. What actually is Vriesea? A total evidence approach in a polyphyletic genus of Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae, Poales). Cladistics 34(2): 181–199. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12200 PDF from ResearchGate Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Alcantarea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 July 13. Reference page.
Luther, H.E. 2014. An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials. The Bromeliad Society International, The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Veröffentlicht durch. PDF Ver. 14 Please note that this source does not contain publication data or synonymy and therefore it is not a technical nomenclatural guide. Reference page.
Grant, J. R. 1995. The resurrection of Alcantarea and Werauhia, a new genus. Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt 91:11.
Grant, J. R. 1995. Addendum to "The resurrection of Alcantarea and Werauhia, a new genus" (Bromeliaceae: Tillandsioideae). Phytologia 78:119–123.
GRIN

Alcantarea (named for Dom Pedro d'Alcântara, second Emperor of Brazil)[1] is related to the genus Vriesea of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.
Species

Alcantarea benzingii Leme
Alcantarea brasiliana (L.B. Smith) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea burle-marxii (Leme) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea distractila Leme & Paula
Alcantarea duarteana (L.B. Smith) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea edmundoi (Leme) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea extensa (L.B. Smith) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea farneyi (Martinelli & A. Costa) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea geniculata (Wawra) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea glaziouana (Lemaire) Leme
Alcantarea hatschbachii (L.B. Smith & R.W. Read) Leme
Alcantarea heloisae J.R. Grant
Alcantarea imperialis (Carrière) Harms
Alcantarea lurida Leme
Alcantarea nahoumii (Leme) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea nevaresii Leme
Alcantarea odorata (Leme) J.R. Grant
Alcantarea patriae Versieux & Wanderley
Alcantarea regina (Vellozo) Harms
Alcantarea roberto-kautskyi Leme
Alcantarea tortuosa Versieux & Wanderley
Alcantarea turgida Versieux & Wanderley
Alcantarea vinicolor (E. Pereira & Reitz) J.R. Grant

References

"Bromeliad Info - Genera Etymology". Archived from the original on 2007-02-03. Retrieved 2007-02-18.