Ayensua

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

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

Familia: Bromeliaceae
Subfamilia: Brocchinioideae
Genus: Ayensua
Species: A. uaipanensis
Name

Ayensua L.B.Sm., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 18(2): 29 (1969)
Note: Givnish et al., (2007) subsumed Ayensua into Brocchinia as Brocchinia uaipanensis, but this is not accepted by Govaerts et al. (2015).
References

Smith, L.B. (1969) Memoirs of The New York Botanical Garden 18: 29.
Givnish, T.J., Millam, K.C., Berry, P. E. & Sytsma, K. J. 2007. Phylogeny, adaptive radiation, and historical biogeography of Bromeliaceae inferred from ndhF sequence data. Aliso 23(1): 3–26. DOI: 10.5642/aliso.20072301.04 PDF Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Ayensua in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 July 2. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Ayensua. Published online. Accessed: July 2 2015.
Tropicos.org 2015. Ayensua. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 July 2.

Ayensua is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae.