Vriesea heliconioides

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Vriesea Species: heliconioides
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Vriesea heliconioides (Kunth) Hooker ex Walpers, 1852

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Distribution:

Southern-Mexico to Panama, Colombia, Suriname, French Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Amazonian Brazil, Bolivia
epiphytic in evergreen lowland-forests
100 m

 

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Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Basionym: Tillandsia heliconioides Kunth (1815) Nova Genera et Species Plantarum 1: 293

(Nov. Gen. Sp.)

Vriesea heliconioides (Kunth) Hooker ex Walpers (1852) Annales Botanices Systematicae 3: 623

(Ann. Bot. Syst.)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia heliconioides Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, 1816
• Tillandsia disticha Willdenow ex Schultes f., 1830; non Kunth, 1816
• Platystachys disticha Beer, 1857; nomen
• Vriesea falkenbergii Bull, 1880
• Vriesea bellula Linden, 1883
• Vriesea disticha O. Kuntze, 1898
• Guzmania obtusa Rusby, 1927
• Vriesea bullata hortus ex Chevalier, 1930
• Vriesea heliconioides var. polysticha L.B. Smith, 1962

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 1110-1112
• Utley (1994) Flora Mesoamericana 6: 127
• Luther & Sieff (1997) Selbyana 18(1): 121
• Steyermark, Berry & Holst (1997) Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol.3 :670
• Oliva-Esteve (2000) Bromeliads :270
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :102