Information about Billbergia
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Billbergia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus is named for the Swedish botanist, zoologist, and anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg. Billbergia primarily occur in Brazil but individual specie are represented from Mexico through tropical South America.
These plants often grown as hot-house plants for their bright inflorescence and colored foliage paterns.
Species
- Billbergia acreana H. Luther
- Billbergia alfonsi-joannis Reitz
- ''Billbergia amandea W. Weber
- Billbergia amoena (Loddiges) Lindley
- b. var. viridis L.B. Smith
- c. var. minor (Antoine & Beer) L.B. Smith
- e. var. carnea E. Pereira
- f. var. stolonifera E. Pereira & Moutinho
- ii. forma. viridiflora E. Pereira & Moutinho
- g. var. flavescens Reitz
- h. var. robertiana E. Pereira & Leme
- Billbergia kautskyana E. Pereira
- Billbergia kuhlmannii L.B. Smith
- Billbergia laxiflora L.B. Smith
- Billbergia leptopoda L.B. Smith
- Billbergia morelii Brongniart
- Billbergia nana E. Pereira
- Billbergia nutans H. Wendland ex Regel
- b. var. schimperiana (Wittmack) Baker
- c. var. striata Reitz
- Billbergia oxysepala Mez
- Billbergia pallidiflora Liebmann
- Billbergia pohliana Mez
- Billbergia porteana Brongniart ex Beer
- Billbergia pyramidalis (Sims) Lindley
- b. var. concolor L.B. Smith
- d. var. striata M.B. Foster
- e. var. lutea Leme & W. Weber
- Billbergia reichardtii Wawra
- Billbergia robert-readii E. Gross & Rauh
- Billbergia rosea hortus ex Beer
- Billbergia rubicunda Mez
- Billbergia rupestris L.B. Smith
- Billbergia saunderiana E. Morren
- Billbergia saundersii Bull
- Billbergia seidelii L.B. Smith & Reitz
- Billbergia stenopetala Harms
- Billbergia tessmannii Harms
- Billbergia tweedieana Baker
- b. var. latisepala L.B. Smith
- Billbergia velascana M. Cardenas
- Billbergia violacea Beer
- Billbergia viridiflora H. Wendland
- Billbergia vittata Brongniart
- Billbergia zebrina (Herbert) Lindley
Cultivars
- 'Fantasia' (Billbergia pyramidalis x Billbergia saudersii) Hybridizer: M. Foster
External links
- Billbergia at Exotics
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]
Divisions
Green algae
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Haeckel, 1866[1]
Divisions
Green algae
- Chlorophyta
- Charophyta
- Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)
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Magnoliophyta
Classes
Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots
The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Classes
Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots
The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Liliopsida is a botanical name for the class containing the family Liliaceae (or Lily Family). It is considered synonymous (or nearly synonymous) with the name monocotyledon. Publication of the name is credited to Scopoli (in 1760): see author citation (botany).
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Poales
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families
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Poales is order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges.
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Small
families
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Poales is order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges.
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Bromeliaceae
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Bromelioideae
Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). This family is the most diverse, represented by the greatest number of genera with 78, but the least number of species with approximately 780.
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Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). This family is the most diverse, represented by the greatest number of genera with 78, but the least number of species with approximately 780.
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Carl Peter Thunberg (November 11, 1743–August 8, 1828) was a Swedish naturalist. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus".
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Botany is the scientific study of plant life. As a branch of biology, it is also called plant science(s), phytology, or plant biology. Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study plants, algae, and fungi including: structure, growth,
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family (Latin: familia, plural familiae) is a rank, or a taxon in that rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Code which applies.
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Bromeliaceae
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Bromelioideae
Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). This family is the most diverse, represented by the greatest number of genera with 78, but the least number of species with approximately 780.
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Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). This family is the most diverse, represented by the greatest number of genera with 78, but the least number of species with approximately 780.
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Motto
(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" ²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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(Royal) "För Sverige - I tiden" 1
"For Sweden – With the Times" ²
Anthem
Du gamla, Du fria
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Zoology (from Greek: ζῴον, zoion, "animal"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals.
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Anatomy (from the Greek ἀνατομία anatomia, from ἀνατέμνειν
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Gustaf Johan Billberg (June 14, 1772 - November 26, 1844) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist.
Billberg was the author of Ekonomisk botanik (1815-16), Enumeratio insectorum in museo (1820) and Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae (1827).
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Billberg was the author of Ekonomisk botanik (1815-16), Enumeratio insectorum in museo (1820) and Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae (1827).
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B. nutans
Binomial name
Billbergia nutans
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Billbergia nutans (Queen's-Tears) is an epiphytic bromeliad native from Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina.
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Binomial name
Billbergia nutans
H.Wendl.
Billbergia nutans (Queen's-Tears) is an epiphytic bromeliad native from Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina.
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pyramidalis
Billbergia pyramidalis is a species in the Bromeliaceae family.
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Billbergia pyramidalis is a species in the Bromeliaceae family.
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