Billbergia

Billbergia
Billbergia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
(unranked):	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:	Bromelioideae
Genus:	Billbergia Thunb.
Species
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. This genus is divided into two subgenera: Billbergia and Helicodea. Many Billbergia are endemic to Brazil but individual species are represented from Mexico to Argentina.

Species

• Billbergia acreana H. Luther
• Billbergia alfonsi-joannis Reitz
• Billbergia amoena (Loddiges) Lindley
  • var. viridis L.B. Smith
  • var. minor (Antoine & Beer) L.B. Smith
  • var. carnea E. Pereira
  • var. stolonifera E. Pereira & Moutinho
    • forma viridiflora E. Pereira & Moutinho
  • var. flavescens Reitz
  • var. robertiana E. Pereira & Leme
• Billbergia brachysiphon L.B. Smith
  • var. paraensis L.B. Smith
  • var. breviflora H. Luther
• Billbergia bradeana L.B. Smith
• Billbergia brasiliensis L.B. Smith
• Billbergia buchholtzii Mez
• Billbergia cardenasii L.B. Smith
• Billbergia castelensis E. Pereira
• Billbergia chiapensis Matuda
• Billbergia chlorantha L.B. Smith
• Billbergia × claudioi Leme
• Billbergia cylindrostachya Mez
• Billbergia dasilvae Leme
• Billbergia decora Poeppig & Endlicher
• Billbergia distachia (Vellozo) Mez
  • var. straussiana (Wittmack) L.B. Smith
  • var. concolor Reitz
  • var. maculata Reitz
• Billbergia elegans Martius ex Schultes f.
• Billbergia eloiseae L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
• Billbergia euphemiae E. Morren
  • var. nudiflora L.B. Smith
  • var. saundersioides L.B. Smith
  • var. purpurea M.B. Foster
• Billbergia formosa Ule
• Billbergia fosteriana L.B. Smith
• Billbergia horrida Regel
  • var. tigrina hortus ex Baker
• Billbergia incarnata (Ruiz & Pavón) Schultes f.
• Billbergia iridifolia (Nees & Martius) Lindley
  • var. concolor L.B. Smith
• Billbergia issingiana T. Krömer & E. Gross
• Billbergia jandebrabanderi R. Vásquez & Ibisch
• Billbergia kautskyana E. Pereira
• Billbergia kuhlmannii L.B. Smith
• Billbergia laxiflora L.B. Smith
• Billbergia leptopoda L.B. Smith
• Billbergia lietzei E. Morren
• Billbergia lymanii E. Pereira & Leme
  • var. angustifolia E. Pereira & Leme
• Billbergia macracantha E. Pereira
• Billbergia macrocalyx Hooker
• Billbergia macrolepis L.B. Smith
• Billbergia magnifica Mez
  • var. acutisepala Hassler
• Billbergia manarae Steyermark
• Billbergia meyeri Mez
• Billbergia microlepis L.B. Smith
• Billbergia minarum L.B. Smith
  • var. viridiflora E. Pereira & Leme
• Billbergia morelii Brongniart
• Billbergia nana E. Pereira
• Billbergia nutans H. Wendland ex Regel
  • var. schimperiana (Wittmack) Baker
  • var. striata Reitz
• Billbergia oxysepala Mez
• Billbergia pallidiflora Liebmann
• Billbergia pohliana Mez
• Billbergia porteana Brongniart ex Beer
• Billbergia pyramidalis (Sims) Lindley
  

  

  Billbergia pyramidalis
  • var. concolor L.B. Smith
  • var. striata M.B. Foster
  • 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 sanderiana E. Morren
• Billbergia saundersii W. Bull
• Billbergia seidelii L.B. Smith & Reitz
• Billbergia stenopetala Harms
• Billbergia tessmannii Harms
• Billbergia tweedieana Baker
  • 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: Mulford B. Foster

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  Fantasia hybrid.

External links

• Billbergia at Exotics

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