Fascicularia

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Fascicularia
Fascicularia bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Bromeliaceae
Subfamily: Bromelioideae
Genus: Fascicularia
Species

See text.

Fascicularia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus name is from the Latin “fasciculus” (bundle) and “arius” (pertaining to)[1]

The genus Fascicularia is indigenous to Chile. In the wild, all Fascicularias are either terrestrial or saxicolous.

Species

Notes

  1. http://www.bsi.org/brom_info/genera.html

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