family Bromeliaceae

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family Bromeliaceae - a family of tropical American plants of order Xyridales including several (as the pineapple) of economic importance

Bromeliaceae, pineapple family

liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed

Commelinales, order Commelinales, order Xyridales, Xyridales - an order of monocotyledonous herbs

Ananas, genus Ananas - a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples)

Bromelia - the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which includes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx

genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia - large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses

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In the family Bromeliaceae, the subfamily Bromelioideae presents the greatest differences in shapes of scales (PEREIRA et al., 2011).

Physiological characteristics of the Atlantic Forest native bromeliads: Nidularium campo-alegrense Leme and Aechmea ornata Baker/Caracteristicas fisiologicas de bromelias nativas da Mata Atlantica: Nidularium campo-alegrense Leme e Aechmea ornata Baker

The family Bromeliaceae comprises about 54 genera and approximately 3000 neotropical species [1] which are distributed in Brazil in a wide variety of environments [2, 3].

Leaf epidermis of the rheophyte Dyckia brevifolia baker (bromeliaceae)

Plants of the family Bromeliaceae, known as bromeliads, are especially adapted to develop phytotelmata, small bodies of water held in central structures formed by the characteristic arrangement of overlapping leaves in hollow rosettes (Fish, 1983).

Chironomid larvae inhabiting bromeliad phytotelmata in a fragment of the Atlantic Rainforest in Rio de Janeiro State/Larvas de Chironomidae (Insecta, Diptera) em fitotelmata de Bromeliaceae em um fragmento de Mata Atlantica no Estado do Rio de Janeiro