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The Eponym Dictionary of Bromeliads Compiled by Michael Charters Photographs by Michael Charters from plants in my garden |
The Bromeliaceae (Pineapple) is a large family of over 3,000 species in approximately 57 genera. They are mainly terrestrial and epiphytic herbaceous plants that grow in mild temperate to tropical regions of the Americas, ranging from Virginia to Patagonia. There is one species of Pitcairnia that grows in West Africa, and a few species grow on the islands of the Pacific. They live in both moist and arid areas, and live at altitudes up to 4,500 meters in the Andes. The family derives its name from the publication in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus of Bromelia pinguin. Two of the best known bromeliads are of course the pineapple, Ananas comosus, and the so-called Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides. Although it is often obvious that an epithet derives from a personal name, sometimes it is not so clear. Going through a list of unfamiliar epithets and trying to decide which ones were named for people is a difficult task. Sorting out epithets derived from personal names from ones derived from geographical locations is equally problematic. It is also very difficult, sometimes well-nigh impossible, to find out who are the honorees for many of these names, since even if the authors specified it in their original publications, those publications are often hundreds of years old, in foreign languages, and housed in herbaria, libraries or museums that are a problem to access. A lot of detective work and a certain amount of guesswork must of necessity go into such a compilation as this, and for all these reasons the following list may contain names that in fact do not commemorate individuals at all. It is almost inevitable that there are also errors in assigning credit for the names included here, but it is my hope that knowledgeable people will notice these and bring them to my attention so that they may be corrected. Please contact me if necessary at mmlcharters[AT]calflora.net. For a list of Bromeliad authors, click here. |
abendrothae (Neoregelia): acosta-solisii (Tillandsia): adamsii (Tillandsia): aesii (Tillandsia): afonsoana (Tillandsia): agostiana (Vriesea): albertiana (Tillandsia): for Alberto Castellanos (1896-1968), Argentine botanist, named by an admiring student who discovered the species. He was a professor of botany at the University of Buenos Aires and collected extensively in Argentina, the neighboring countries, and Europe. He was president of the first South American Botanical Congress, founder of the Department of Botany at Montevideo, honorary president of the Argentine Succulent Plants Society, a founding member of the Internation Association of Plant Taxonomists and head of the botanical section of the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences. He was the author of Genera et Species Plantarum Argentinarum. Tillandsia albertiana was published in 1969 by the Argentine botanist Federico Bernardo Vervoorst. (JSTOR; Rainforest Flora, Inc.) alexanderi (Pepinia): alfonsi-joannis (Billbergia): alfredo-laui (Tillandsia): aliciae (Navia): allenii (Aechmea): for Paul Hamilton Allen (1911-1963), American orchidologist, taxonomist and tropical plantsman. His professional positions included Manager of the Missouri Botanical Garden Tropical Station, Balboa, Canal Zone (1936–1939), botanist for the United Fruit Company, Esquinas Experimental Station, Palmas, Costa Rica (1948–1953), Director of the Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coconut Grove, Florida (1953– 1954), professor of horticulture at Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Zamorano, Honduras (1954–1958), bot-anical consultant to the Minister of Agriculture, El Salvador (1958–1959), and director of the Lancetilla Experi-mental Station of the U.F.C. in Tela, Honduras (1959–1963). He was the author of The Rain Forests of Golfo Dulce (1956), and his wife, Dorothy Osdieck Allen, was a botanical artist. Aechmea allenii was published in 1941 by American botanist Lyman Bradford Smith. (Hunt Institute; Wikipedia) almeriae (Racinaea): altensteinii (Pitcairnia): altsonii (Guzmania): alvareziae (Tillandsia): alversonii (Pitcairnia oblongifolia var.): alvimii (Lymania, Nidularium, Orthophytum, Quesnelia): for Alvim Seidel (1927-2007), nurseryman and collector from Brazil, son of Roberto Seidel who founded the Seidel Nursery in Brazil in 1906. Alvim took over in 1945. amadoi (Vriesea): amandae (Neoregelia): amorimii (Aechmea, Nidularium): for Brazilian botanist Andre Amorim. (Aechmea Information) andersoniana/andersonii (Aechmea): for discoverer of the species John Anderson. (Aechmea Information) andreana (Guzmania, Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): probably for Édouard François André (1840-1911), French horticulturist, botanical collector and a leading garden and landscape architect who explored in Columbia, Ecuador and Venezuela. andreettae (Guzmania, Pitcairnia alata var., Vriesea): andrieuxii (Tillandsia): appenii (Vriesea): araujii (Tillandsia): archeri (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): arelii (Cryptanthus): arequitae (Tillandsia): aristeguietae (Puya): ariza-juliae (Tillandsia): asplundii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia, Puya, Tillandsia): augusto-coburgii (Quesnelia): azevedoi (Neoregelia): baileyi (Tillandsia): bakeri (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): bakiorum (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): balansae (Bromelia): barbeyana (Tillandsia): barbiei (Guzmania): barbosae (Vriesea): barclayana (Vriesea): barkleyana (Puya): barrigae (Pitcairnia): barilletii (Vriesea): barrosoae (Tillandsia): barthlottii (Tillandsia): bartramii (Tillandsia): beachiae (Pepinia): beateae (Dyckia): beeriana (Aechmea): for its discoverer Mr. Beer. (Aechmea Information) belloi (Aechmea orlandiana ssp., Vriesea): for R. Bello, collector and discoverer of Aechmea orlandiana ssp. belloi. (Aechmea Information) benrathii (Aechmea recurvata var.): for discoverer Benrath. (Aechmea Information) benzingii (Alcantarea, Orthophytum): bergeri (Tillandsia): bergii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): bermejana (Puya): berryana (Navia): berteroi (Greigia): berteroniana (Catopsis, Guzmania, Puya): besseae (Guzmania): betancurii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): beuckeri (Cryptanthus): beutelspacheri (Tillandsia): binotii (Bromelia, Neoregelia): bismarckii (Guzmania, Tillandsia): blackburniana (Vriesea): blassii (Guzmania, Racinaea): bleherae (Vriesea): boeghii (Vriesea): bogneri (Pitcairnia aequatorialis var.): boudetianum (Orthophytum): bourgaei (Tillandsia): brackeana (Guzmania, Pitcairnia, Puya): bradeana (Billbergia, Tillandsia)/bradeanum (Encholirium)/bradei (Pepinia): possibly for Alexander Curt Brade (1881-1971). braunii (Bromelia, Dyckia, Orthophytum): breedlovei (Pitcairnia): brenneri (Tillandsia): breweri (Navia): brittoniana (Hechtia, Pitcairnia, Puya): brongnartiana (Pitcairnia): brownii (Mezobromelia, Neoregelia): brueggeri (Aechmea): for discoverer M. Brügger. (Aechmea Information) brunei (Werauhia): buchlohii (Tillandsia): buckholtzii (Billbergia): burchellii (Canistropsis, Dyckia): burgeri (Werauhia): buscalionii (Pitcairnia): buseri (Tillandsia): butcheri (Guzmania): butzii (Tillandsia): probably for Gartenbauoberinspektor (Horticulture Inspector General) Ludwig Butz (1879-1966) who was at both Berlin and Königsberg at the same times as Carl Christian Mez who published the name in 1935. Butz was a soldier in World War I, then studied horticulture at a nursery in Wiesbaden, worked at the Palm Garden at Frankfurt am Main, and was employed as a gardener at the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Gardens and then at the Botanical Gardens at Königsberg. A secondary and less likely derivation for this specific epithet would be the horticulturist George C. Butz (1863-1907) who was descended from German-Swiss parents, studied agriculture and rose to be Professor of Horticulture at Pennsylvania State College in 1903. He spent a year in California. cabrerae (Dyckia, Guzmania): calderonii (Pitcairnia): califanii (Tillandsia): camposii (Pitcairnia): cardenasii (Billbergia, Pitcairnia, Puya, Tillandsia): cardonae (Navia, Puya): carlos-hankii (Tillandsia): carlsoniae (Tillandsia): carlsoniae (Hechtia): carnevalii (Navia): carrierei (Tillandsia): carvalhoi (Aechmea, Ronnbergia): for M. de Carvalho, discoverer of Aechmea carvalhoi. (Aechmea Information) castellanosii (Hohenbergia, Puya): castelnavii (Aechmea): either for (1) Francis de Laporte de Castelnau19 th century french naturalist who explored North and South America (The Plant Files Newsletter) or (2) location of original discovery, Castelnau, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (Aechmea Information). cathcartii (Aechmea, Neoregelia, Vriesea): for D. Cathcart, discoverer of Aechmea cathcartii. (Aechmea Information) catingae (Hohenbergia, Orthophytum): Chavaliera: clarkii (Pitcairnia): claudiae (Puya): claudioi (Billbergia x): clausseniana (Vriesea): cleefii (Puya): colganii (Tillandsia): colnagoi (Cryptanthus, Vriesea): conzattiana (Hechtia): copynii (Tillandsia): correia-araujoi (Aechmea, Canistropsis, Hohenbergia, Neoregelia, Vriesea): for Luiz Knud Correia de Araujo, discoverer of Aechmea correia-araujoi and well-known collector. (Aechmea Information) cossonii (Tillandsia): costantinii (Aechmea): for Professor Costantin of the Paris Museum. (Aechmea Information) cowanii (Brocchinia): cowellii (Werauhia): crista-gallii (Tillandsia): croatii (Pitcairnia): cuatrecasasii (Guzmania, Puya, Tillandsia): cuevae (Puya): curranii (Aechmea): for Curran, discoverer. (Aechmea Information) dalstroemii (Guzmania, Werauhia): danielii (Greigia, Guzmania): dasilvae (Billbergia): dawsonii (Dyckia): deleonii (Ronnbergia): deppeana (Tillandsia): deroosei (Pitcairnia): desautelsii (Guzmania): Deuterocohnia: for Ferdinand Julius Cohn, German botanist and bacteriologist (1828-1898). devansayana (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): dexteri (Tillandsia): dianae (Cryptanthus): diazii (Guzmania): dielsii (Racinaea): diguetii (Tillandsia): dodsonii (Pitcairnia, Puya, Tillandsia): doeringiana (Neoregelia): dorisdaltoniae (Tillandsia): dorotheae (Tillandsia): dorotheehaseae (Tillandsia): dorothyae (Cryptanthus): downsiana (Aechmea): for Dr. W.G. Downs, bromeliad scholar and co-discoverer. (Aechmea Information) drakeana (Aechmea): for discoverer M.E. Drake del Castillo. (Aechmea Information) dressleri (Werauhia): drewii (Vriesea): duartei (Orthophytum): duckei (Dyckia): dudleyi (Guzmania, Tillandsia): dugesii (Tillandsia): duidae (Navia, Vriesea): dungsiana (Neoregelia, Tillandsia tenuifolia var.): dusenii (Dyckia): dussii (Guzmania): duvaliana (Vriesea): eddie-estevesii (Encholirium, Orthophytum): probably for Eddie Esteves Pereira (1939- ). edithae (Tillandsia): edmundoi (Alcantarea, Hohenbergia, Quesnelia): eduardii (Guzmania): egleri (Pitcairnia)/egleriana (Aechmea): for botanist Walter Alberto Egler. (Aechmea Information) ehlersiana (Tillandsia): eipperi (Aechmea caudata var.): for E.J. Eipper, discoverer. (Aechmea Information) eistetteri (Tillandsia): eitenorum (Bromelia): probably for George and Liene Eiten who have collected extensively throughout Brazil. eizii (Tillandsia): ekmanii (Guzmania): elisabethae (Dyckia, Pitcairnia): elizabethiae (Tillandsia): ellenbergii (Pitcairnia): eloiseae (Billbergia): eltoniana (Neoregelia, Tillandsia, Vriesea): elvallensis (Guzmania): elviragrossiae (Puya)/elvira-grossiae (Tillandsia): emmerichiae (Aechmea): for for M. Emmerich, Director, Herbarium Bradeanum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Aechmea Information) engleriana (Tillandsia): entringeri (Aechmea): for Agestino Entringer, co-collector. (Aechmea Information) erici (Tillandsia): erlenbachiana (Puya): ermitae (Tillandsia): espinosae (Tillandsia, Vriesea): esseriana (Tillandsia): estevesii (Bromelia, Dyckia, Hohenbergia, Orthophytum): falconii (Orthophytum): farneyi (Alcantarea): fassettii (Tillandsia): fawcettii (Guzmania, Hohenbergia, Racinaea): feliciana (Pitcairnia): for Henri Jacques-Félix, Nogent-sur-Marne, France, specialist of African Melastomataceae, affiliated with the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. According to Jacques-Félix (pers. comm. 10 Oct 1997) Russell worked with Chevalier, and prepared a cursory description of the foliar anatomy of the new species. Through their friendship, Chevalier dedicated the genus Willrussellia to Russell. felixii (Cryptanthus): ferdinando-coburgii (Nidularium): fernandae (Aechmea): for Fernande Glon, daughter of nurseryman M. Linden. (Aechmea Information) ferrell-ingramiae (Pitcairnia): ferreyrae (Pitcairnia, Puya, Tillandsia): ferrisiana (Tillandsia): fiebrigii (Puya): flemingii (Aechmea, Bromelia): for Conrad Fleming, collector. (Aechmea Information) fontourae (Vriesea): foreroi (Pitcairnia): francisci (Tillandsia): fraseri (Aechmea, Racinaea): for Fraser, discoverer of Aechmea fraseri. (Aechmea Information) frassyi (Aechmea): for collector Arturo Frassy. (Aechmea Information) fiesii (Tillandsia): fritzmuelleri (Ananas): froesii (Aechmea): fuchsii (Aechmea caudata var., Tillandsia): for Fred Fuchs, discoverer of Aechmea fuchsii. (Aechmea Information) fuentesii (Fosterella): fuerstenbergiana (Guzmania)/fuerstenbergii (Aechmea=Streptocalyx): for the Prince of Fürstenberg, the plant (A. fuerstenbergii) originally came from his greenhouses. (Aechmea Information) fuertesii (Pitcairnia): fuquae (Guzmania): gableana (Deuterocohnia): galeottii (Aechmea, Hechtia): for discoverer of Aechmea galeottii Galeotti. (Aechmea Information) garcia-barrigae (Navia): gardneri (Portea, Tillandsia): gargantae (Puya): garlippiana (Vriesea): geissii (Tillandsia): genseri (Tillandsia): gerd-muelleri (Puya, Tillandsia): gerdae (Puya, Tillandsia): germinyana (Aechmea): for Count Alfredo de Germiny. (Aechmea Information) geyskesii (Pepinia): possibly for D.G. Geyskes. ghiesbreghtii (Racinaea): gilliesii (Dyckia, Tillandsia): gilmartiniae (Brocchinia, Puya, Racinaea): for Amy Jean Gilmartin (1932-1989). glaziovii (Aechmea distichantha var., Bromelia, Cryptanthus, Dyckia, Encholirium, Pitcairnia, Portea): for Auguste François Marie Glaziou, 20th century French plant collector in Brazil. (Garden Dictionary) gleasonii (Navia): glymiana (Pitcairnia): goehringii (Dyckia): goeldiana (Bromelia)/goeldianus (Araeococcus): goudae (Pitcairnia): goudotiana (Guzmania, Puya): graebeneri (Tillandsia): grantii (Puya): granvillei (Bromelia): Gravisia: grazielae (Aechmea, Cryptanthus, Tillandsia): for botanist Dr. Graziela Marciel Baroso. (Aechmea Information) greenbergii (Werauhia): grossiorum (Orthophytum): possibly for Elvira Angela Gross (1954-2005), German botanist, bromeliad specialist. grubbiana (Pitcairnia)/grubbii (Puya): gruberi (Tillandsia romeroi var., Vriesea): guelzii (Tillandsia): guenther-nolleri (Tillandsia): gurkenii (Orthophytum): gustavoi (Aechmea): for Gustavo J.P.S. Barroso, owner of land where species was discovered. (Aechmea Information) gutteana (Pitcairnia, Puya): hahnii (Catopsis): hainesiorum (Werauhia): haltonii (Aechmea, Werauhia): for discoverer of Aechmea haltonii Mr. Halton of Selby Gardens, Sarasota, Florida. (Aechmea Information) hammelii (Pepinia): hammeri (Tillandsia): harleyi (Orthophytum): harlingii (Guzmania, Pepinia): harmsiana (Vriesea)/harmsii (Puya): harrisii (Tillandsia): harrylutheri (Vriesea): hathewayi (Ronnbergia): hatschbachii (Alcantarea, Dyckia, Fosterella, Hohenbergia, Orthophytum, Pitcairnia): hauggiae (Racinaea): haughtii (Pitcairnia): haumanii (Deuterocohnia): hebdingii (Dyckia): heerdeae (Pitcairnia): hegeri (Tillandsia): heleniceae (Orthophytum): helmutii (Tillandsia): heloisae (Alcantarea, Encholirium): hemkeri (Tillandsia): henniae (Guzmania): herrerae (Guzmania, Puya, Tillandsia walteri var.): herzogii (Puya): heubergii (Tillandsia): heydlaufii (Pitcairnia): hieronymii (Bromelia): hildae (Tillandsia): hintoniana (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): hirtzii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia, Puya, Tillandsia): hitchcockii (Brocchinia)/hitchcockiana (Guzmania, Pitcairnia, Vriesea): hodgei (Vriesea): hoehneana (Aechmea ornata var., Neoregelia, Vriesea): for botanist and discoverer of Aechmea hoehneana F.C. Hoehne. (Aechmea Information) hoeijeri (Tillandsia): hofstenii (Puya): holmesii (Streptocalyx): holstii (Lindmania, Pepinia): hooveri (Pepinia): horstii (Bromelia, Tillandsia): hromadnikiana (Tillandsia): huancavelicae (Puya): huberi (Lindmania)/huberiana (Navia): hubertiana (Tillandsia): huebneri (Aechmea): for discoverer Huebner. (Aechmea Information) humboldtii (Tillandsia): hutchisonii (Mezobromelia, Puya): ibischii (Puya): ignaciana (Bromelia): ignesiae (Tillandsia): ilseana (Tillandsia): irmgardiae (Dyckia): irwiniana (Pitcairnia)/irwinii (Bromelia, Dyckia, Encholirium): isabellina (Puya): issingiana (Billbergia): itatiaiae (Fernseea): izkoi (Guzmania): jaramilloi (Guzmania/Pitcairnia): jenii (Werauhia): jenmanii (Racinaea): jimenezii (Pitcairnia): joannis (Aechmea): joergensenii (Puya): johannis (Neoregelia, Pitcairnia): johnsoniae (Neoregelia): jonesianum (Nidularium)/jonesii (Tillandsia, Vriesea): jonghei (Vriesea): joyae (Vriesea): juerg-rutschmannii (Tillandsia): julianae (Dyckia): juzepczukii (Pitcairnia): kalbreyeri (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): kalmbacheri (Tillandsia): kammii (Tillandsia): kareniae (Guzmania): karwinskyana (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): kathyae (Werauhia): kauffmannii (Tillandsia): kautskyi (Neoregelia, Quesnelia, Tillandsia)/kautskyana (Billbergia, Vriesea)/kautskyanum (Nidularium): kegeliana (Tillandsia): kentii (Aechmea, Guzmania): for discoverer of Aechmea kentii J. Kent. (Aechmea Information) kermesina (Portea): kerryi (Neoregelia): kessleri (Greigia, Racinaea, Tillandsia): killipiana (Guzmania, Pepinia, Ronnbergia)/killipii (Puya): kirkbridei (Pitcairnia): kirchhoffiana (Tillandsia): kirschnekii (Tillandsia): klausii (Tillandsia): kleinii (Aechmea): for Roberto M. Klein, curator of a herbarium and friend of the person who described the plant (Reitz). (Aechmea Information) koehresiana (Tillandsia): koeneniana (Pitcairnia): koesteri (Aechmea): koideae (Tillandsia, Vriesea): kolbii (Tillandsia): kraenzliniana (Guzmania): krahnii (Tillandsia): kressii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): kretzii (Tillandsia): krisgreeniae (Nidularium): kroemeri (Pitcairnia): krukoffiana (Tillandsia): krystofii (Tillandsia): kuehhasii (Tillandsia): kunhardtiana (Pepinia): kuntzeana (Aechmea, Puya, Tillandsia): for discoverer of Aechmea kuntzeana Kuntz. (Aechmea Information) kuppereana (Werauhia): kuzmae (Tillandsia): lacerdae (Cryptanthus): laesslei (Hohenbergia): lamarchei (Aechmea): for discoverer Lamarche. landbeckii (Greigia, Tillandsia): larae (Puya): lasseri (Aechmea): for Dr. T. Lasser, Director, Institute of Botany and the Botanical Garden, Caracas, Venezuela. (Aechmea Information) laui (Tillandsia): lautneri (Tillandsia): lechleri (Pitcairnia): legrellae (Bromelia): lehmanniana (Guzmania, Puya)/lehmannii (Pitcairnia): lemeana (Guzmania)/lemei (Hohenbergia, Orthophytum): for Elton Martinez Carvalho Leme (1960- ). leonard-kentiana (Aechmea): for Leonard Kent, father of Jeffrey Kent of Kent's Bromeliad Nursery, California. (Aechmea Information) leonii (Vriesea ruschii ssp.): leopoldo-horstii (Cryptanthus, Hohenbergia): leopoldii (Aechmea, Billbergia, Pepinia, Pitcairnia, Vriesea): leprieurii (Pitcairnia): leuzingerae (Cryptanthus): liesneri (Navia): lietzei (Billbergia): lilloi (Puya): lillyae (Neoregelia): lindae (Pitcairnia): lindevaldae (Bromelia. Dyckia): lindleyana (Ochagavia): linehamii (Nidularium): linharesiae (Vriesea)/linharesiorum (Aechmea): for discoverer of Aechmea linharesiorum and explorer S.A. Linhares. (Aechmea Information) loki-schmidtiae (Pitcairnia): lokischmidtiae (Puya): lopezii (Pitcairnia, Puya, Tillandsia): lorentziana (Deuterocohnia, Tillandsia): lotteae (Deuterocohnia, Tillandsia): lubbersii (Vriesea): lugoi (Aechmea): for discoverer M. Lugo. (Aechmea Information) luis-gomezii (Werauhia): lundelliorum (Hechtia): luschnathii (Pitcairnia): luteyniorum (Pepinia): lutheriana (Vriesea)/lutherianus (Cryptanthus)/lutheri (Pitcairnia, Puya, Vriesea, Werauhia): lutziana (Dyckia): lydiae (Tillandsia): lymansmithiana (Pitcairnia, Racinaea)/lyman-smithii (Cryptanthus, Hechtia, Mezobromelia, Nidularium, Vriesea, Werauhia)/lymansmithii (Hechtia): for Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist. maasii (Aechmea): for P. Maas, collector and colleague of the people who described the plant. (Aechmea Information) macbrideana (Greigia, Tillandsia)/ macbridei (Puya): macdougalii (Tillandsia): macedoi (Dyckia): macvaughii (Tillandsia, Ursulaea): macwilliamsii (Neoregelia): madisonii (Guzmania): magalhaesii (Encholirium, Orthophytum): magdalenae (Aechmea, Ananas, Mezobromelia, Neoregelia): maguirei (Brocchinia, Lindmania, Navia, Pepinia, Vriesea): makoyana (Aechmea comata var., Tillandsia): for Makoy, a nurseryman, who discovered the variety Aechmea comata var. makoyana. (Aechmea Information) makrinii (Tillandsia): mallemontii (Tillandsia): malvernii (Hechtia): malyi (Tillandsia): mandonii (Tillandsia): manzanaresiana (Aechmea)/manzanaresiorum (Guzmania): for J. Manzanares, bromeliad scholar from Quito. (Aechmea Information) marceloi (Canistropsis): marconae (Tillandsia): margaretae (Neoregelia): mariae (Puya): mariae-reginae (Aechmea): for the Virgin Queen, Queen Mary. (Aechmea Information) marigoi (Nidularium): markusii (Tillandsia): marnier-lapostollei (Dyckia, Hechtia, Pitcairnia, Tillandsia, Werauhia): martinellii (Dyckia, Neoregelia): matudae (Tillandsia): mauryana (Tillandsia): maxoniana (Vriesea): meeanum (Nidularium): melgueroi (Vriesea): melinonii (Aechmea): for discoverer Melinon. (Aechmea Information) mello-barretoi (Dyckia, Orthophytum): menescalii (Neoregelia, Vriesea): meyeri (Billbergia): meziana (Deuterocohnia, Puya): michaelii (Vriesea): micheliana (Pitcairnia)/michelii (Guzmania, Racinaea, Tillandsia): milsteiniana (Aechmea): for G. Milstein, bromeliad cultivator in New York. (Aechmea Information) mirandae (Pitcairnia): mohammadii (Pitcairnia): monteroana (Puya coerulea var.): moonenii (Aechmea): for discoverer J. Moonen. (Aechmea Information) mooreana (Aechmea, Hechtia, Neoregelia, Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): moorei (Aechmea): for discoverer and collector Lee Moore. (Aechmea Information) moralesii (Werauhia): morelii (Billbergia): moritziana (Pitcairnia): morreniana (Bromelia, Catopsis, Guzmania, Quesnelia, Ronnbergia)/morrenii (Vriesea): moscosoi (Tillandsia): mosquerae (Guzmania): muelleri (Vriesea): muhriae (Tillandsia): nahoumii (Alcantarea, Connellia): nallyi (Aechmea): for J. Nally, discoverer and collector from Florida. (Aechmea Information) nanuzae (Vriesea): navarroana (Puya): neeana (Pepinia, Pitcairnia): neillii (Pitcairnia): nevaresii (Neoregelia): niduspuellae (Bromelia): niederleinii (Dyckia): noblickii (Vriesea): nolleriana (Tillandsia): novakii (Tillandsia): nowickii (Fosterella): oerstediana (Tillandsia)/oerstedii (Tillandsia): oliva-estevae (Lindmania, Pitcairnia): oliveirae (Bromelia): orjuelae (Werauhia): Ortgiesia/ortgiesiana (Tillandsia)/ortgiesii (Aechmea recurvata var.): for Eduard Ortgies of Zurich, collaborator of botanist Regel. (Aechmea Information) pabstii (Aechmea, Hohenbergia, Vriesea): for botanist G. Pabst. (Aechmea Information) palmeri (Bromelia, Pitcairnia): pamelae (Tillandsia): parryi (Tillandsia): patriciae (Aechmea): for discoverer Patricia Bulis. (Aechmea Information) pattersonae (Guzmania, Puya, Racinaea): pavonii (Pitcairnia): pearcei (Fosterella, Greigia, Guzmania, Puya): peiranoi (Tillandsia): penlandii (Racinaea): pennae (Hohenbergia): pennellii (Guzmania): pereirae (Vriesea): pereziana (Vriesea): petersii (Ronnbergia): pfeufferi (Tillandsia): phelpsiae (Lindmania, Navia, Pitcairnia): philippo-coburgii (Vriesea): pickelii (Canistrum, Cryptanthus): piepenbringii (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia krukoffiana var., Vrisea): pimenti-velosoi (Aechmea): for ecologist and mosquito expert H. Pimenta Veloso. (Aechmea Information) pineliana (Aechmea, Neoregelia): for discoverer of Aechmea pineliana Charles Pinel. (Aechmea Information) pinottii (Vriesea): piresii (Lindmania, Navia): pittieri (Aechmea, Werauhia): for naturalist H. Pittier. (Aechmea Information) pizarroana (Puya): platzmannii (Vriesea): plowmanii (Steyerbromelia): plumieri (Bromelia, Guzmania): poeppigiana (Pitcairnia)/poeppigii (Bromelia, Streptocalyx): pohliana (Billbergia, Tillandsia): poitaei (Aechmea, Streptocalyx): for discoverer of Aechmea poitaei P. Poiteau. (Aechmea Information) polzii (Tillandsia): pontualii (Neoregelia): poortmanii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): portillae (Tillandsia): Pothuava: prancei (Aechmea): for discoverer G. Prance, collector and botanist. (Aechmea Information) praschekii (Tillandsia): pringlei (Tillandsia utriculata ssp.): proctorii (Hohenbergia, Werauhia): prosanae (Puya): quelchii (Connellia): quillotana (Puya): raackii (Tillandsia): rafaelii (Vriesea): raimondii (Puya): ramellae (Tillandsia): ramonii (Puya): rauhiana (Guzmania)/rauhii (Puya, Tillandsia heteropmorpha var., Tillandsia, Vriesea): rauschii (Tillandsia): redoutei (Bromelia): regnellii (Bromelia, Vriesea): reichardtii (Billbergia): reichenbachii (Tillandsia): reisii (Cryptanthus): reitzii (Dyckia, Vriesea): remyi (Guzmania): reuteri (Tillandsia): rhonhofiana (Guzmania): richteri (Neoregelia): ridleyi (Hohenbergia): riocreuxii (Racinaea): robert-readii (Billbergia)/robertreadii (Fosterella): robertiana (Billbergia amoena var.) roberto-anselmoi (Aechmea): for Roberto Anselmo Kautsky (1924- ). roberto-kautskyi (Alcantarea, Cryptanthus): for Roberto Anselmo Kautsky (1924- ). roberto-seidelii (Aechmea, Vriesea): for Roberto Seidel, father of Alvim Seidel, nurseryman and collector from Brazil. Roberto Seidel founded the Seidel Nursery in Brazil in 1906. (Aechmea information) robin-fosteri (Puya): robinsonii (Navia): rodigasiana (Vriesea): rodriguesiana (Aechmea): for discoverer W. Rodrigues. (Aechmea information) roeseliae (Aechmea): for C. Roesel, researcher at Smithsonian Institution. (Aechmea information) roethii (Neoregelia, Vriesea): roezlii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia flammea var., Puya, Tillandsia): rohdenardinii (Tillandsia): rohwederi (Greigia): rojasii (Fosterella, Pitcairnia): roland-gosseliniii (Tillandsia): roldanii (Puya): romeroi (Aechmea, Tillandsia): for discoverer of Aechmea romeroi R. Romero-Casteñeda. (Aechmea information) rondoniana (Bromelia): rothii (Tillandsia): rothschuhiana (Racinaea): rubyae (Vriesea): rudolfii (Tillandsia): ruizana (Pitcairnia): rundelliana (Pitcairnia): rusbyi (Fosterella, Puya, Tillandsia): ruschii (Neoregelia, Vriesea): ruthiae (Cryptanthus): salzmannii (Hohenbergia): samuelssonii (Pitcairnia): sanctae-crucis (Puya): sanctae-martae (Greigia, Racinaea): sandemanii (Pitcairnia): sanderiana (Billbergia): sandrae (Canistrum, Hohenbergia): sandwithii (Navia): sangii (Tillandsia): santieusebii (Tillandsia): santosii (Puya): sastrei (Pitcairnia): saundersii (Billbergii, Vriesea): sazimae (Vriesea): schatzlii (Tillandsia): scheremetiewii (Nidularium): scherzeriana (Guzmania): schiediana (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): schimperiana (Billbergia nutans var., Tillandsia): schlimii (Pitcairnia microcalyx var.): schlumbergeri (Aechmea distichantha var.): for horticulturist Schlumberg. (Aechmea Information) schottii (Hechtia): schreiteri (Deuterocohnia): schubertii (Neoregelia): schultesiana (Navia, Vriesea): schultzei (Tillandsia): schultzianum (Orthophytum)/schultzii (Pitcairnia): schumanniana (Racinaea): schunkei (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia)/schunkii (Vriesea): schusteri (Tillandsia): schwackeana (Dyckia, Vriesea)/schwackeanus (Cryptanthus): seemannii (Racinaea): seideliana (Aechmea, Neoregelia, Ortgiesia, Quesnelia, Tillandsia, Vriesea)/seidelianum (Canistrum)/ seidelianus (Cryptanthus)/seidelii (Aechmea, Billbergia, Canistropsis, Nidularium, Streptocalyx): for Alvim Seidel (1927-2007), nurseryman and collector from Brazil, son of Roberto Seidel who founded the Seidel Nursery in Brazil in 1906. Alvim took over in 1945. (Aechmea information) seleriana (Tillandsia): selloana (Eduandrea): sellowiana (Dyckia): sessemocinoi (Tillandsia): for Martín Sessé y Lacasta and José Mariano Mociño? sickii (Dyckia): sieffiana (Guzmania): silva-petrea (Vriesea): silvae (Dyckia): silvae-baccae (Puya): silveirae (Portea): sintenisii (Vriesea): skotakii (Guzmania): smithiana (Lindmania): smithii (Lymania, Neoregelia, Puya): smithiorum (Aechmea, Pitcairnia): for discoverers of Aechmea smithiorum G.W. and H.H. Smith. (Aechmea Information) sneidernii (Guzmania, Pitcairnia): snowii (Pitcairnia brachysperma var.): soderstromii (Vriesea): sodiroana (Puya)/sodiroi (Pitcairnia, Tillandsia): solomonii (Puya): sprengeliana (Tillandsia): sprucei (Guzmania, Pepinia): standleyi (Tillandsia): stephanii (Tillandsia fuchsii var.): stevensonii (Pitcairnia): steyermarkii (Brocchinia, Greigia, Guzmania, Lindmania, Navia, Pitcairnia, Racinaea): straussiana (Billbergia distachia var.): strobeliae (Vriesea): sucrei (Tillandsia, Vriesea): suescana (Tillandsia): suesillae (Tillandsia): supthutii (Orthophytum): susannae (Pitcairnia): swartzii (Vriesea): takizawae (Tillandsia): tatei (Brocchinia): tatzyanae (Pepinia): tessmannii (Aechmea, Billbergia): for G. Tessmann, discoverer of Aechmea tessmannii. (Aechmea Information) teuscheri (Guzmania): thiekenii (Tillandsia): thomasiana (Puya)/thomasii (Steyerbromelia): tillettii (Greigia): tillii (Pitcairnia, Puya, Tillandsia, Vriesea): tomekii (Tillandsia): tonduziana (Werauhia)/tonduzii (Aechmea): for Swiss discoverer A. Tonduz. (Aechmea Information) tosconoi (Orthophytum): trauneri (Tillandsia): trianae (Bromelia, Pitcairnia, Puya): trollii (Puya): tuerckheimii (Pitcairnia, Vriesea): turneri (Tillandsia): tweedieana (Billbergia, Tillandsia, Vriesea)/tweediei (Dyckia): for John Tweedie (1775-1862)? tympani (Pitcairnia): ulei (Pitcairnia): ulrici (Tillandsia): Ursulaea: for Ursula Baensch, plant breeder and co-author with her husband of ‘Blooming Bromeliads’. velerioi (Pitcairnia): vallerandii (Aechmea): van-hyningii (Greigia, Tillandsia ionantha var., Werauhia): vanhoutteana (Aechmea): for nurseryman Vanhoutte. (Aechmea Information) vanvolxemii (Guzmania): varadarajanii (Connellia): vargasiana (Pitcairnia, Puya): vasquezii (Aechmea, Fosterella, Puya): for discoverer of Aechmea vasquezii Roberto Vasquez of Peru. (Aechmea Information) velickiana (Tillandsia): vidalii (Vriesea): villetaensis (Pitcairnia): vogelii (Encholirium): Vriesea: for Willem Hendrik de Vriese (1806-1862), Dutch botanist. (CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names) wagneriana (Tillandsia): walter-richteri (Tillandsia): walteri (Tillandsia): wangerinii (Catopsis): warasii (Aechmea, Cryptanthus): for Waras, discoverer of Aechmea warasii. (Aechmea Information) warmingii (Dyckia, Vriesea): warren-loosei (Cryptanthus): for Warren Loose, bromeliad and orchid propagator at the Beaumont Botanical Gardens in Texas. wawranea (Catopsis, Tillandsia, Vriesea): wawreana (Catopsis): weberbaueri (Aechmea, Fosterella, Guzmania, Puya): for discoverer of Aechmea weberbaueri Weberbauer. (Aechmea Information) weberi (Aechmea, Tillandsia, Vriesea)/weberiana (Puya): for botanist W. Weber. (Aechmea Information) weddelliana (Dyckia, Fosterella, Puya): welzii (Tillandsia): wendlandii (Pitcairnia): wendtiae (Pitcairnia): werckleana (Catopsis, Werauhia): werdermannii (Aechmea, Tillandsia): for discoverer of Aechmea werdermannii Werdermann. (Aechmea Information) werffii (Pepinia): westii (Puya): whitmanii (Cryptanthus): wilburiana (Pitcairnia): williamsii (Aechmea, Werauhia): for discoverer of Aechmea williamsii Llewelen Williams. (Aechmea Information) Willrussellia: for William Russell: "chef de travaux honoraire de Botanique de la Faculté des Sciences de Paris" [honorary head of botanical works of the Faculty of Sciences, Paris]. A synonym of Pitcairnia. wilsoniana (Neoregelia): windischii (Fosterella, Pitcairnia): winkleri (Aechmeam, Tillandsia): for discoverer of Aechmea winkleri Sieghard Winkler (1936-1992). (Aechmea Information) wolfei (Pitcairnia): woodsoniana (Werauhia): wrightii (Aechmea, Guzmania, Puya, Vriesea): wuelfinghoffii (Aechmea, Tillandsia, Vriesea): for discoverer of Aechmea wuelfinghoffii R. Wülfinghoff. (Aechmea Information) wurdackiana (Brocchinia)/wurdackii (Lindmania, Navia, Neoregelia, Puya, Tillandsia, Vriesea): wynteri (Pitcairnia bromeliifolia var.): yunckeri (Tillandsia): Truman George Yuncker 1891-1964 yuvinkae (Fosterella): Yuvinka Gareca 1978- , Bolivian entomologist zahnii (Guzmania): Gottlieb Zahn, ?-1870 zakii (Guzmania): Vlastimil Zak 1959- zamudioi (Hechtia): Sergio Zamudio Ruiz 1953- zanonii (Orthophytum): zaslawskyi (Neoregelia): ? Vladyslaw Zaslawski zecheri (Tillandsia): Ernst Zecher, gardener at Schoenbrunn |
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