Vriesea

Vriesea

Vriesea duvaliana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:	Tillandsioideae
Genus:	Vriesea Lindl.
Synonyms^[1]
Hexalepis Raf. Vrieseida Rojas Acosta Neovriesia Britton

Containing some of the largest bromeliad species, these tropical plants harbor a wide variety of insect fauna. In the wild, frogs may go through their whole life cycle in a bromeliad. This genus is closely related to Guzmania. Both Guzmania and Vriesea have dry capsules that split open to release parachute like seeds similar to the Dandelion (Taraxacum sp.). Most Vriesea are epiphytes and grow on trees. Their roots function mainly as holdfasts with a more minor role in nutrient uptake. Nutrients are predominantly absorbed from the reservoirs made by the rosette of leaves.

As of October 2022^[update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:

Vriesea agostiniana E.Pereira – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea alta (Baker) É.Morren ex Mez – Panama

Vriesea altimontana E.Pereira & Martinelli – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea altodaserrae L.B.Sm. – from Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarina

Vriesea altomacaensis A.Costa – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea altomayoensis H.Luther & K.F.Norton – Peru

Vriesea amethystina É.Morren – Espírito Santo + Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea andaraiensis Leme – Bahia

Vriesea andreettae Rauh – Azuay Province of Ecuador

Vriesea appendiculata (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Loja Province of Ecuador

Vriesea arachnoidea A.Costa – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea arpocalyx (André) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador

Vriesea atra Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea atrococcinea Rauh – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea atropurpurea Silveira – Minas Gerais

Vriesea aureoramosa F.P.Uribbe & A.F.Costa

Vriesea bahiana Leme – Bahia

Vriesea barbosae J.A.Siqueira & Leme – Pernambuco

Vriesea barilletii É.Morren – Espírito Santo

Vriesea baturitensis Versieux & Tomaz

Vriesea biguassuensis Reitz – Santa Catarina in southern Brazil

Vriesea billbergioides É.Morren ex Mez – São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea bituminosa Wawra – Venezuela, eastern Brazil

Vriesea blackburniana Leme – Bahia

Vriesea bleheri Roeth & W.Weber – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea boeghii H.Luther – Loja Province of Ecuador

Vriesea breviscapa (E.Pereira & I.A.Penna) Leme – Bahia, Espírito Santo

Vriesea × brueggemannii J.Z.Matos, M.B.Crespo & Juan

Vriesea brusquensis Reitz – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea cacuminis L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais

Vriesea calimaniana Leme & W.Till – Espírito Santo

Vriesea capixabae Leme – Espírito Santo

Vriesea carinata Wawra – eastern + southern Brazil

Vriesea carmeniae R.L.Moura & A.F.Costa

Vriesea castaneobulbosa (Mez & Wercklé) J.R.Grant – Costa Rica

Vriesea cathcartii H.Luther – Ecuador

Vriesea cearensis L.B.Sm. – Ceará

Vriesea cereicola (Mez) L.B.Sm. – Peru

Vriesea chapadensis Leme – Bahia

Vriesea cipoensis O.B.C.Ribeiro, C.C.Paula & Guarçoni – Minas Gerais

Vriesea claudiana Leme, Trind.-Lima & O.B.C.Ribeiro – Minas Gerais

Vriesea clausseniana (Baker) Mez – Minas Gerais

Vriesea colnagoi E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Espírito Santo

Vriesea confusa L.B.Sm. – Nariño region of Colombia

Vriesea corcovadensis (Britton) Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea correia-arauji E.Pereira & I.A.Penna

Vriesea crassa Mez – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea curvispica Rauh – Peru

Vriesea cylindrica L.B.Sm. – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia

Vriesea debilis Leme – Espírito Santo

Vriesea declinata Leme – Santa Catarina in southern Brazil

Vriesea delicatula L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo

Vriesea densiflora Mez – Minas Gerais

Vriesea diamantinensis Leme – Minas Gerais

Vriesea dictyographa Leme – Bahia

Vriesea dissitiflora (C.Wright) Mez – Cuba

Vriesea drepanocarpa (Baker) Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea drewii L.B.Sm. – Ecuador

Vriesea dubia (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Peru, Ecuador

Vriesea duidae (L.B.Sm.) Gouda – Guyana, Venezuela

Vriesea duvaliana É.Morren – Bahia

Vriesea elata (Baker) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador

Vriesea eltoniana E.Pereira & Ivo – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea ensiformis (Vell.) Beer, including Vriesea warmingii – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea erythrodactylon (É.Morren) É.Morren ex Mez – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea exaltata Leme – Bahia

Vriesea fenestralis Linden & André – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea fibrosa L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State in Venezuela

Vriesea fidelensis Leme – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea flammea L.B.Sm. – eastern and southern Brazil

Vriesea flava And.Costa, H.Luther & Wand. – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea fluminensis E.Pereira – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea fluviatilis Kessous & A.F.Costa

Vriesea fontanae Fraga & Leme – Espírito Santo

Vriesea fontourae B.R.Silva – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea fosteriana L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo

Vriesea fradensis And.Costa – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea freicanecana J.A.Siqueira & Leme – Pernambuco

Vriesea friburgensis Mez – Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay

Vriesea garlippiana Leme – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea gelatinosa R.L.Moura & A.F.Costa

Vriesea gigantea Gaudich. – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea gladioflammans E.Pereira & Reitz – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea gracilior (L.B.Sm.) Leme – Espírito Santo

Vriesea graciliscapa W.Weber – Bahia

Vriesea gradata (Baker) Mez – southeastern Brazil

Vriesea grandiflora Leme – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea guttata Linden & André – southern Brazil

Vriesea harmsiana (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Peru

Vriesea heterostachys (Baker) L.B.Sm. – southern Brazil

Vriesea hieroglyphica (Carrière) É.Morren – from Espírito Santo to Paraná

Vriesea hitchcockiana (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru

Vriesea hodgei L.B.Sm. – Colombia

Vriesea hoehneana L.B.Sm. – southern Brazil

Vriesea hydrophora Ule – southern Brazil

Vriesea incurva (Griseb.) Read – Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Bolivia

Vriesea incurvata Gaudich. – southern Brazil

Vriesea inflata (Wawra) Wawra – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea interrogatoria L.B.Sm. – from Minas Gerais to São Paulo

Vriesea itatiaiae Wawra – southern Brazil

Vriesea johnstonii (Mez) L.B.Sm. & Pittendr. – Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana

Vriesea jonesiana Leme – São Paulo

Vriesea jonghei (K.Koch) É.Morren – Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil

Vriesea joyae E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea kautskyana E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea koideae Rauh – Peru

Vriesea lancifolia (Baker) L.B.Sm. – Bahia

Vriesea languida L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo

Vriesea laxa Mez – Venezuela

Vriesea leptantha Harms – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea lidicensis Reitz – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea lilliputiana Leme

Vriesea limae L.B.Sm. – Pernambuco

Vriesea limonensis Rauh – Ecuador

Vriesea linharesiae Leme & J.A.Siqueira – Bahia

Vriesea longicaulis (Baker) Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea longiscapa Ule – southern Brazil

Vriesea longisepala A.F.Costa – Bahia

Vriesea longistaminea C.C.Paula & Leme – Minas Gerais

Vriesea lubbersii (Baker) É.Morren ex Mez – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea lutheriana J.R.Grant – Costa Rica

Vriesea macrostachya (Bello) Mez – Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Trinidad; Carabobo State in Venezuela

Vriesea maculosa Mez – Bahia

Vriesea magna F.P.Uribbe & A.F.Costa

Vriesea maguirei L.B.Sm. – Venezuela, northern Brazil

Vriesea marceloi Versieux & T.Machado – Minas Gerais

Vriesea maxoniana (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Bolivia and Salta Province of Argentina

Vriesea medusa Versieux

Vriesea melgueiroi I.Ramírez & Carnevali

Vriesea menescalii E.Pereira & Leme – Espírito Santo

Vriesea michaelii W.Weber – Brazil; probably extinct

Vriesea microrachis J.Gomes-da-Silva & A.F.Costa – Brazil

Vriesea mimosoensis D.R.Couto, Kessous & A.F.Costa

Vriesea minarum L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais

Vriesea minor (L.B.Sm.) Leme – Minas Gerais

Vriesea minuta Leme – Bahia

Vriesea minutiflora Leme – Bahia

Vriesea mitoura L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State of Venezuela; Roraima

Vriesea modesta Mez – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea mollis Leme – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea monacorum L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais

Vriesea morrenii Wawra (also spelt Vriesea morreni)

Vriesea × morreniana É.Morren

Vriesea mourae Kessous, B.Neves & A.F.Costa

Vriesea muelleri Mez – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea myriantha (Baker) Betancur (syn. Tillandsia myriantha)

Vriesea nanuzae Leme – Minas Gerais

Vriesea neoglutinosa Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea noblickii Martinelli & Leme – Bahia

Vriesea nubicola Leme – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea oligantha (Baker) Mez – Bahia, Minas Gerais

Vriesea olmosana L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru

Vriesea oxapampae Rauh – Pasco Province of Peru

Vriesea pabstii McWill. & L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo, São Paulo

Vriesea paradoxa Mez – Bahia

Vriesea paraibica Wawra – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea paratiensis E.Pereira – from Rio de Janeiro to Paraná

Vriesea pardalina Mez – southern Brazil

Vriesea parviflora L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo

Vriesea parvula Rauh – São Paulo

Vriesea pastuchoffiana Glaz. ex Mez – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea patula (Mez) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru

Vriesea pauciflora Mez – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea pauperrima E.Pereira – eastern + southern Brazil

Vriesea penduliflora L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea penduliscapa Rauh – Moreno-Santiago region of Ecuador

Vriesea pereirae L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo

Vriesea pereziana (André) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Peru

Vriesea petraea (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – El Oro region of Ecuador

Vriesea philippocoburgi Wawra

Vriesea pinottii Reitz – southern Brazil

Vriesea piscatrix Versieux & Wand.

Vriesea platynema Gaudich. – Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Misiones Provindce of Argentina

Vriesea platzmannii É.Morren – southern Brazil

Vriesea pleiosticha (Griseb.) Gouda (synonym Mezobromelia pleiosticha) – Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, Ecuador, northern Brazil

Vriesea poenulata (Baker) É.Morren ex Mez – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea portentosa Leme

Vriesea procera (Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Wittm. – Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina

Vriesea pseudoatra Leme – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea pseudoligantha Philcox – Bahia

Vriesea psittacina (Hook.) Lindl. – Brazil, Paraguay

Vriesea pulchra Leme & L.Kollmann – Espírito Santo

Vriesea punctulata E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea racinae L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais

Vriesea rafaelii Leme – Minas Gerais

Vriesea rastrensis Leme – Santa Catarina in southern Brazil

Vriesea rectifolia Rauh – Pernambuco but probably extinct

Vriesea recurvata Gaudich. – Bahia

Vriesea regnellii Mez – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea reitzii Leme & And.Costa – southern Brazil

Vriesea repandostachys Leme – Espírito Santo

Vriesea × retroflexa É.Morren

Vriesea revoluta B.R.Silva – Espírito Santo

Vriesea rhodostachys L.B.Sm. – Bahia, Espírito Santo

Vriesea roberto-seidelii W.Weber – Bahia

Vriesea robusta (Griseb.) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Venezuela

Vriesea rodigasiana É.Morren – from Bahia to Santa Catarina

Vriesea roethii W.Weber – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea rubens J.Gomes-da-Silva & A.F.Costa – Santa Catarina

Vriesea rubra (Ruiz & Pav.) Beer – Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Guyana

Vriesea rubrobracteata Rauh – Colombia

Vriesea rubroviridis F.P.Uribbe & A.F.Costa

Vriesea rubyae E.Pereira – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea ruschii L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais, Bahia, Espírito Santo

Vriesea sagasteguii L.B.Sm. – Peru

Vriesea saltensis Leme & L.Kollmann

Vriesea sanctaparecidae Leme

Vriesea sanfranciscana Versieux & Wand. – Minas Gerais

Vriesea santaleopoldinensis Leme & L.Kollmann – Espírito Santo

Vriesea saundersii (Carrière) É.Morren (synonym Vriesea botafogensis) – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea saxicola L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais

Vriesea sazimae Leme – Minas Gerais, São Paulo

Vriesea scalaris É.Morren – Venezuela, Brazil

Vriesea sceptrum Mez – from Bahia to São Paulo

Vriesea schultesiana L.B.Sm. – Colombia

Vriesea schunkii Leme – Espírito Santo

Vriesea schwackeana Mez – from Bahia to São Paulo

Vriesea secundiflora Leme – Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo

Vriesea segadas-viannae L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais

Vriesea seideliana W.Weber – Espírito Santo

Vriesea serrana E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea serranegrensis Leme – Minas Gerais

Vriesea silvana Leme – Bahia

Vriesea simplex (Vell.) Beer – Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil

Vriesea simulans Leme – Minas Gerais

Vriesea sincorana Mez – Bahia

Vriesea skotakii H.Luther & K.F.Norton – Panam

Vriesea socialis L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Venezuela

Vriesea sparsiflora L.B.Sm. – from Espírito Santo to São Paulo

Vriesea speckmaieri W.Till – Carabobo State of Venezuela

Vriesea stricta L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais

Vriesea strobeliae Rauh – Ecuador

Vriesea sucrei L.B.Sm. & Read – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea sulcata L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State of Venezuela

Vriesea swartzii (Baker) Mez – Jamaica

Vriesea takahashiana Leme & W.Till

Vriesea taritubensis E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo

Vriesea tequendamae (André) L.B.Sm. – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Vriesea teresopolitana Leme – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea thyrsoidea Mez – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea tijucana E.Pereira – eastern Brazil

Vriesea tillandsioides L.B.Sm. – Peru

Vriesea triangularis Reitz – Santa Catarina

Vriesea triligulata Mez – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea tubipetala Leme & R.L.Moura

Vriesea unilateralis (Baker) Mez – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea vagans (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – eastern + southern Brazil

Vriesea vellozicola Leme & J.A.Siqueira – Espírito Santo

Vriesea vexata Leme

Vriesea vexillata L.B.Sm. – Colombia

Vriesea vidalii L.B.Sm. & Handro – Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea vulpinoidea L.B.Sm. – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina

Vriesea wawrana Antoine (also spelt Vriesea wawranea; synonym Vriesea oleosa) – Bahia, Rio de Janeiro

Vriesea weberi E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Espírito Santo

Vriesea wuelfinghoffii Rauh & E.Gross – Azuay Province in Ecuador

Vriesea wurdackii L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State of Venezuela

Vriesea zamorensis (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru

Vriesea zildae R.L.Moura & A.F.Costa

Vriesea zonata Leme & J.A.Siqueira – Alagoas State in eastern Brazil

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