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Brocchinia
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Brocchinia micrantha

Brocchinia micrantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Liliopsida
Order:Poales
Family:Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:Pitcairnioideae
Genus:Brocchinia
J.H.Schult. ex J.A.Schult. & J.H.Schult. (1830)
Species
  • Brocchinia acuminata
  • Brocchinia amazonica
  • Brocchinia cataractarum
  • Brocchinia cowanii
  • Brocchinia delicatula
  • Brocchinia gilmartiniae
  • Brocchinia hectioides
  • Brocchinia hitchcockii
  • Brocchinia maguirei
  • Brocchinia melanacra
  • Brocchinia micrantha
  • Brocchinia paniculata
  • Brocchinia prismatica
  • Brocchinia reducta
  • Brocchinia rupestris
  • Brocchinia serrata
  • Brocchinia steyermarkii
  • Brocchinia tatei
  • Brocchinia vestita
  • Brocchinia wurdackiana


Brocchinia is a genus within the subfamily Pitcairnioideae (family Bromeliaceae) that is native to southern Venezuela and Guyana, and is found in areas containing sandstone. The genus was named in honor of the Italian naturalist Giovanni Battista Brocchi.

Phylogenetic analysis of the Pitcairnioideae subfamily revealed that Brocchinia represents its own, possibly ancient lineage separate from the other genera within Pitcairnioideae.[1] Because of this position, it has been suggested that Brocchinia is closely related to another subfamily of Bromeliaceae, Tillandsioideae, and may represent an evolutionary link between Tillandsioideae and Pitcairnioideae via Glomeropitcairnia.[2] Botanists performing cladistic analysis of morphological differences within the subfamily have even made a case for removing Brocchinia from its subfamily.<ref name="Gilmartin" /> Brocchinia evolved in the Guayana Highlands, possibly from a mesic ancestor that originated the pitcairnioid lineage at the end of the Cretaceous period. Brocchinia most resembles these extinct ancestors to the other genera within the Pitcairnioideae subfamily. Because of its specialized growth habitat on sandstone and its limited dispersal potential, Brocchinia remains limited to the Guayana Highlands, little changed from the time of its origin.[3]

At least one species of Brocchinia is considered to be a carnivorous plant. B. reducta, like other bromeliads, collects water in the tank formed by its tightly packed, rosetted leaves. B. reducta has adaptations to attract, kill, digest, and absorb nutrients from insect prey.[4][5]

References

1. ^ Gilmartin, A.J. (1988). Phylogenetic relationships of groups of genera within the subfamily Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae). Systematic Botany, 13(2): 283-293.
2. ^ Benzing, D.H., Givnish, T.J., and Bermudes, D. (1985). Absorptive trichomes in Brocchinia reducta (Bromeliaceae) and their evolutionary and systematic significance. Systematic Botany, 10(1): 81-91.
3. ^ Benzing, D.H. (1980). The Biology of the Bromeliads. California: Mad River Press.
4. ^ Givnish, T.J., Burkhardt, E.L., Happel, R.E. & Weintraub, J.D. (1984). Carnivory in the bromeliad Brocchinia reducta, with a cost/benefit model for the general restriction of carnivorous plants to sunny, moist, nutrient-poor habitats. American Naturalist 124: 479-497.
5. ^ Plachno, B. J.; Jankun, A.: Phosphatase Activity in Glandular Structures of Carnivorous Plant Traps., International Botanical Congress 2005 Vienna, P1716, The Jagiellonian Univ., Inst. of Botany, Dept. of Plant Cytology and Embryology, Krakow,Poland.
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
  • Chlorophyta
  • Charophyta
Land plants (embryophytes)
  • 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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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
Small

families
See text

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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Subfamiles
  • Bromelioideae
  • Pitcairnioideae
  • Tillandsioideae
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Pitcairnioideae

Piticairnioidaeae is the terrestrial subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). Unlike the many epiphytes and lithophytes which comprise the rest of the family, with a few exceptions, all of the members of this subfamily are either terrestrial
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Julius Hermann Schultes (1804 – 1840) was an Austrian botanist in Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes.
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Josef (Joseph) August Schultes 1773-1831 was an Austrian botanist and professor in Vienna. Together with Johann Jacob Roemer, he published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium.

Father of Julius Hermann Schultes.
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Julius Hermann Schultes (1804 – 1840) was an Austrian botanist in Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the Systema Vegetabilium with his father Josef August Schultes.
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B. reducta

Binomial name
Brocchinia reducta
Baker 1882

Brocchinia reducta distribution


Brocchinia reducta
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Pitcairnioideae

Piticairnioidaeae is the terrestrial subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). Unlike the many epiphytes and lithophytes which comprise the rest of the family, with a few exceptions, all of the members of this subfamily are either terrestrial
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Bromeliaceae
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Motto
[2]
Anthem
Gloria al Bravo Pueblo   (Spanish)
"Glory to the Brave People"
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Motto
"One people, one nation, one destiny"
Anthem
"Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains"


Capital
(and largest city) Georgetown
Official languages English
Demonym Guyanese
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Giovanni Battista Brocchi (or Giambattista) (February 18, 1772 - September 25, 1826) was an Italian mineralogist and geologist.

He was born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, and studied jurisprudence at the University of Padova, but his attention was turned to mineralogy and
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Tillandsioideae

Tillandsioideae is a subfamily of plants in the bromeliad family Bromeliaceae. This group contains the least amount of genera (10) but the most amount of species (1250).
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Glomeropitcarnia

Species

Glomeropitcairnia penduliflora
Glomeropitcairnia erectiflora

Glomeropitcarnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae.
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Cladistics is a philosophy of classification that arranges organisms only by their order of branching in an evolutionary tree and not by their morphological similarity, in the words of Luria et al. (1981).
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Guayana Region is an administrative region of Venezuela. The region has a population of 1,383,297 inhabitants and a territory of 458,344 km². It borders the independent nation of Guyana (formerly British Guiana) which forms part of The Guyanas.
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In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a moderate or well-balanced supply of moisture, i.e. a mesic forest, a temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie.
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The Cretaceous Period is one of the major divisions of the geologic timescale, reaching from the end of the Jurassic Period (i.e. from 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago (Ma)) to the beginning of the Paleocene epoch of the Tertiary Period (about 65.5 ± 0.3 Ma).
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Carnivorous plants (sometimes called insectivorous plants) are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, most focusing on insects and other arthropods.
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rosette is a circular arrangement of the leaves, with all the leaves at a single height. Often, perennial plants whose foliage dies and the remaining vegetation protects the plant. Internodes are often shortened getting the leaves closer together, as in lettuce and dandelion.
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