Bromeliales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Bromeliales

Texas false agave
airplant
barkplant
billbergia
bromelia
bromeliads
dyckia
foolproofplant
guapilla
hechtia
lacebark
livingvase
parasita
pina cortadora
pineapple
pinguin
pirigallo
pitcairnia
sawblade
vriesea

Hierarchical position of the Order Bromeliales

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Commelinidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967.
common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
  
   SuperOrdo  Bromelianae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Bromeliales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 54. 1829.
  

Named members of the Order Bromeliales

1
   Subordo  Bromeliineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 86. Mai 1898.
  
 
2
   Familia  Bromeliaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 49. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Bromeliads
  

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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