Family: Bromeliaceae
Group: Monocot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Herb
Substrate:
Epiphyte
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Southern Mexico, Central America and northern South America; widely cultivated and sometimes naturalized elsewhere.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed by Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 269-271, with illustrations) as mostly epiphytic, sometimes terrestrial, in the northwestern Commonwealth (region 8). Introduced from continental tropical America.
Comments:
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