The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Bromeliaceae

The family Bromeliaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Bromeliaceae

A list of all accepted names in Bromeliaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Bromeliaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 50 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 6,892 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Bromeliaceae. Of these 3,160 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 949 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Bromeliaceae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 6,892 species names for the family Bromeliaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 3,160 45.9%
◕ Synonym 3,413 49.5%
◕ Unplaced 156 2.3%
◕ Unassessed 163 2.4%

All names

The status of the 7,841 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Bromeliaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 3,338 42.6%
◕ Synonym 4,176 53.3%
◕ Unplaced 156 2.0%
◕ Unassessed 171 2.2%

Of these names,

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 6,892 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Bromeliaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 3,143 2,955 0 0 6,098 88.5%
Medium confidence 15 415 0 0 430 6.2%
Low confidence 2 43 156 163 364 5.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Bromeliaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 15 424 0 118 0 557 8.1%
WCSP 3,145 2,989 156 0 2 6,292 91.3%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 45 0 45 0.7%