Billbergia

Taxobox
name = "Billbergia"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Billbergia"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Bromeliaceae
subfamilia = Bromelioideae
genus = "Billbergia" sp.
genus_authority = Thunb.
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Billbergia" is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus is named for the Swedish botanist, zoologist, and anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg. Billbergia primarily occur in Brazil but individual specie are represented from Mexico through tropical South America.

These plants often grown as hot-house plants for their bright inflorescence and colored foliage paterns.

pecies

* "Billbergia acreana" H. Luther
* "Billbergia alfonsi-joannis" Reitz
* "Billbergia amandea W. Weber
* "Billbergia amoena" (Loddiges) Lindley
** b. var. "viridis" L.B. Smith
** c. var. "minor" (Antoine & Beer) L.B. Smith
** e. var. "carnea" E. Pereira
** f. var. "stolonifera" E. Pereira & Moutinho
***ii. forma. "viridiflora" E. Pereira & Moutinho
** g. var. "flavescens" Reitz
** h. var. "robertiana" E. Pereira & Leme
* "Billbergia kautskyana" E. Pereira
* "Billbergia kuhlmannii" L.B. Smith
* "Billbergia laxiflora" L.B. Smith
*"Billbergia leptopoda" L.B. Smith
* "Billbergia morelii" Brongniart
* "Billbergia nana" E. Pereira
*"Billbergia nutans" H. Wendland ex Regel
** b. var. "schimperiana" (Wittmack) Baker
** c. var. "striata" Reitz
* "Billbergia oxysepala" Mez
* "Billbergia pallidiflora" Liebmann
* "Billbergia pohliana" Mez
* "Billbergia porteana" Brongniart ex Beer
* "Billbergia pyramidalis" (Sims) Lindley
** b. var. "concolor" L.B. Smith
** d. var. "striata" M.B. Foster
** e. var. "lutea" Leme & W. Weber
* "Billbergia reichardtii" Wawra
* "Billbergia robert-readii" E. Gross & Rauh
* "Billbergia rosea" hortus ex Beer
* "Billbergia rubicunda" Mez
* "Billbergia rupestris" L.B. Smith
* "Billbergia saunderiana" E. Morren
*"Billbergia saundersii" Bull
* "Billbergia seidelii" L.B. Smith & Reitz
* "Billbergia stenopetala" Harms
* "Billbergia tessmannii" Harms
* "Billbergia tweedieana" Baker
** b. var. "latisepala" L.B. Smith
* "Billbergia velascana" M. Cardenas
* "Billbergia violacea" Beer
* "Billbergia viridiflora" H. Wendland
* "Billbergia vittata" Brongniart
* "Billbergia zebrina" (Herbert) Lindley

Cultivars

*"'Fantasia'" ("Billbergia pyramidalis" x "Billbergia saudersii") Hybridizer: M. Foster

External links

* [http://exotics.home.att.net/BILLBERGIA.htm "Billbergia"] at Exotics