Billbergia

Billbergia
Billbergia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:	Bromelioideae
Genus:	Billbergia Thunb.
Synonyms[1]
Anacyclia Hoffmanns. Eucallias Raf. Jonghea Lem. Cremobotrys Beer Helicodea Lem. Pseudaechmea L.B.Sm. & Read

Billbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus, named for the Swedish botanist, zoologist, and anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg, is divided into two subgenera: Billbergia and Helicodea. They are native to forest and scrub, up to an altitude of 1,700 m (5,577 ft), in southern Mexico, the West Indies, Central America and South America, with many species endemic to Brazil.^[1]

They are rosette-forming, evergreen perennials, usually epiphytic in habit, often with brilliantly coloured flowers.^[2]

Species

1. Billbergia acreana H. Luther - Acre
2. Billbergia alfonsi-joannis Reitz - from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina
3. Billbergia amandae W.Weber - Brazil, but probably extinct
4. Billbergia ambigua (L.B.Sm. & Read) Betancur & N.R.Salinas - Antioquia
5. Billbergia amoena (Loddiges) Lindley - Brazil
6. Billbergia brachysiphon L.B. Smith - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador
7. Billbergia bradeana L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
8. Billbergia brasiliensis L.B. Smith - Rio de Janeiro
9. Billbergia buchholtzii Mez - Brazil, but probably extinct
10. Billbergia cardenasii L.B. Smith - Bolivia
11. Billbergia castelensis E. Pereira - Espírito Santo
12. Billbergia chlorantha L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
13. Billbergia × claudioi Leme - Brazil
14. Billbergia cylindrostachya Mez - Rio de Janeiro
15. Billbergia dasilvae Leme - Rondônia
16. Billbergia decora Poeppig & Endlicher - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
17. Billbergia distachya (Vellozo) Mez - southern Brazil
18. Billbergia domingosmartinsis E.Gross - Espírito Santo
19. Billbergia elegans Martius ex Schultes f. - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
20. Billbergia eloiseae L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Colombia
21. Billbergia euphemiae E. Morren - southeastern Brazil
22. Billbergia formosa Ule - Peru
23. Billbergia horrida Regel - southeastern Brazil
24. Billbergia incarnata (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f. - Peru
25. Billbergia iridifolia (Nees & Martius) Lindley - southeastern Brazil
26. Billbergia issingiana T. Krömer & E. Gross - Bolivia
27. Billbergia jandebrabanderi R. Vásquez & Ibisch - Bolivia
28. Billbergia kautskyana E. Pereira - Espírito Santo
29. Billbergia kuhlmannii L.B. Smith - Brazil, Bolivia
30. Billbergia laxiflora L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
31. Billbergia leptopoda L.B. Smith - Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
32. Billbergia lietzei E. Morren - Espírito Santo
33. Billbergia lymanii E. Pereira & Leme - southeastern Brazil
34. Billbergia macracantha E. Pereira - Rio de Janeiro
35. Billbergia macrocalyx Hooker - Bahia, Minas Gerais
36. Billbergia macrolepis L.B. Smith - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana
37. Billbergia magnifica Mez - Brazil, Paraguay
38. Billbergia manarae Steyermark - Venezuela
39. Billbergia meyeri Mez - Brazil, Bolivia
40. Billbergia microlepis L.B. Smith - Bolivia
41. Billbergia minarum L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
42. Billbergia morelii Brongniart - eastern Brazil
43. Billbergia nana E. Pereira - Bahia, Espírito Santo
44. Billbergia nutans H. Wendland ex Regel - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
45. Billbergia oxysepala Mez - Acre, Ecuador
46. Billbergia pallidiflora Liebmann - Mexico and Central America from Sinaloa to Nicaragua
47. Billbergia pohliana Mez - Minas Gerais
48. Billbergia porteana Brongniart ex Beer - Brazil, Paraguay
49. Billbergia pyramidalis (Sims) Lindley - Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana, Lesser Antilles, Cuba; naturalized in Mauritius
    

    Billbergia pyramidalis
50. Billbergia reichardtii Wawra - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
51. Billbergia robert-readii E. Gross & Rauh - Peru
52. Billbergia rosea hortus ex Beer - Trinidad, Venezuela
53. Billbergia rubicunda Mez - Suriname
54. Billbergia rupestris L.B. Smith - Colombia, Acre
55. Billbergia sanderiana E. Morren - southeastern Brazil
56. Billbergia seidelii L.B. Smith & Reitz - Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro
57. Billbergia stenopetala Harms - Ecuador, Peru
58. Billbergia tessmannii Harms - Peru
59. Billbergia tweedieana Baker - southeastern Brazil
60. Billbergia velascana M. Cardenas - Bolivia
61. Billbergia violacea Beer - Guianas, Brazil
62. Billbergia viridiflora H. Wendland - Belize, Guatemala, Tabasco
63. Billbergia vittata Brongniart - eastern Brazil
64. Billbergia zebrina (Herbert) Lindley - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay

Cultivars

• Billbergia 'Windii' (B. × windii)
• 'Fantasia' (Billbergia pyramidalis × Billbergia saudersii) Hybridizer: Mulford B. Foster

• 

  Fantasia hybrid.

References

1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.