English: Bromeliads.
Dutch: Bromelias.
Use: decoration, room plants; fruits.
Botany: 57 genera; 3170 species; tropical Americas, cloud forests; septal nectaries; leaves in basal rosette, most widely patterned and coloured; inferior ovaries; inflorescence diverse, from 2 mm to 10 meters tall; some epiphytes, lithophytes, terrestrial; store water in their tightly overlapping leaf bases.
TaxonomyIn the
Apg3 classification Bromeliaceae is a member of
Poales.
Plant theoryIn the
Plant theory Poales is split into 3 groups:
Cyperaceae,
Poaceae and
Bromeliaceae.
Bromeliaceae is placed in
Subphase 7.