Paepalanthus bromelioides

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Paepalanthus bromelioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Eriocaulaceae Genus: Paepalanthus Species: P. bromelioides
Binomial name
Paepalanthus bromelioides Silv.
Paepalanthus distribution

Paepalanthus is a genus in the flowering plant family Eriocaulaceae. This family is placed in the Poales, close to the Bromeliaceae, whose morphology this genus shares. The sole species in the genus, Paepalanthus bromelioides, is native to La Gran Sabana of Brazil, the area in which the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta is also found. There is some speculation that the occasional insects trapped in the urn of this plant are evidence of its being a carnivorous plant; however, this is highly speculative.

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Carnivorous plant genera

Aldrovanda • Brocchinia • Byblis • Catopsis • Cephalotus • Darlingtonia • Dionaea • Drosera • Drosophyllum • Genlisea • Heliamphora • Nepenthes • Pinguicula • Roridula • Sarracenia • Triphyophyllum • Utricularia

Protocarnivorous: Capsella • Dipsacus • Geranium • Ibicella • Paepalanthus • Passiflora • Plumbago • Potentilla • Stylidium

Extinct: Archaeamphora • Droserapollis • Droserapites • Droseridites • Fischeripollis • Palaeoaldrovanda • Saxonipollis

See also: List of carnivorous plants