Vriesea

Vriesea
	Vriesea duvaliana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:	Tillandsioideae
Genus:	Vriesea; Lindl.
Synonyms
	Hexalepis Raf.; Vrieseida Rojas Acosta; Neovriesia Britton;

Vriesea is a genus of flowering plants in the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily

botanist, physician (1806–1862).^[2] Its species are widespread over Mexico, Central America, South America and the West Indies.^[1]

Containing some of the largest bromeliad

epiphytes

and grow on trees. Their roots function mainly as holdfasts with a more minor role in nutrient uptake. Nutrients are predominantly absorbed from the reservoirs made by the rosette of leaves.

Species

As of October 2022 [update], Plants of the World Online accepted the following species:

Vriesea agostiniana E.Pereira – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea alta (Baker) É.Morren ex Mez – Panama
Vriesea altimontana E.Pereira & Martinelli – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea altodaserrae L.B.Sm. – from Rio de Janeiro to Santa Catarina
Vriesea altomacaensis A.Costa – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea altomayoensis H.Luther & K.F.Norton – Peru
Vriesea amethystina É.Morren – Espírito Santo + Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea andaraiensis Leme – Bahia
Vriesea andreettae Rauh – Azuay Province of Ecuador
Vriesea appendiculata (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Loja Province of Ecuador
Vriesea arachnoidea A.Costa – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea arpocalyx (André) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador
Vriesea atra Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea atrococcinea Rauh – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea atropurpurea Silveira – Minas Gerais
Vriesea aureoramosa F.P.Uribbe & A.F.Costa
Vriesea bahiana Leme – Bahia
Vriesea barbosae J.A.Siqueira & Leme – Pernambuco
Vriesea barilletii É.Morren – Espírito Santo
Vriesea baturitensis Versieux & Tomaz
Vriesea biguassuensis Reitz – Santa Catarina in southern Brazil
Vriesea billbergioides É.Morren ex Mez – São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea bituminosa Wawra – Venezuela, eastern Brazil
Vriesea blackburniana Leme – Bahia
Vriesea bleheri Roeth & W.Weber – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea boeghii H.Luther – Loja Province of Ecuador
Vriesea breviscapa (E.Pereira & I.A.Penna) Leme – Bahia, Espírito Santo
Vriesea × brueggemannii J.Z.Matos, M.B.Crespo & Juan
Vriesea brusquensis Reitz – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea cacuminis L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais
Vriesea calimaniana Leme & W.Till – Espírito Santo
Vriesea capixabae Leme – Espírito Santo
Vriesea carinata Wawra – eastern + southern Brazil
Vriesea carmeniae R.L.Moura & A.F.Costa
Vriesea castaneobulbosa (Mez & Wercklé) J.R.Grant – Costa Rica
Vriesea cathcartii H.Luther – Ecuador
Vriesea cearensis L.B.Sm. – Ceará
Vriesea cereicola (Mez) L.B.Sm. – Peru
Vriesea chapadensis Leme – Bahia
Vriesea cipoensis O.B.C.Ribeiro, C.C.Paula & Guarçoni – Minas Gerais
Vriesea claudiana Leme, Trind.-Lima & O.B.C.Ribeiro – Minas Gerais
Vriesea clausseniana (Baker) Mez – Minas Gerais
Vriesea colnagoi E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Espírito Santo
Vriesea confusa L.B.Sm. – Nariño region of Colombia
Vriesea corcovadensis (Britton) Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea correia-arauji E.Pereira & I.A.Penna
Vriesea crassa Mez – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea curvispica Rauh – Peru
Vriesea cylindrica L.B.Sm. – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia
Vriesea debilis Leme – Espírito Santo
Vriesea declinata Leme – Santa Catarina in southern Brazil
Vriesea delicatula L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo
Vriesea densiflora Mez – Minas Gerais
Vriesea diamantinensis Leme – Minas Gerais
Vriesea dictyographa Leme – Bahia
Vriesea dissitiflora (C.Wright) Mez – Cuba
Vriesea drepanocarpa (Baker) Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea drewii L.B.Sm. – Ecuador
Vriesea dubia (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Peru, Ecuador
Vriesea duidae (L.B.Sm.) Gouda – Guyana, Venezuela
Vriesea duvaliana É.Morren – Bahia
Vriesea elata (Baker) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
Vriesea eltoniana E.Pereira & Ivo – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea ensiformis (Vell.) Beer, including Vriesea warmingii – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea erythrodactylon (É.Morren) É.Morren ex Mez – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea exaltata Leme – Bahia
Vriesea fenestralis Linden & André – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea fibrosa L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State in Venezuela
Vriesea fidelensis Leme – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea flammea L.B.Sm. – eastern and southern Brazil
Vriesea flava And.Costa, H.Luther & Wand. – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea fluminensis E.Pereira – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea fluviatilis Kessous & A.F.Costa
Vriesea fontanae Fraga & Leme – Espírito Santo
Vriesea fontourae B.R.Silva – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea fosteriana L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo
Vriesea fradensis And.Costa – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea freicanecana J.A.Siqueira & Leme – Pernambuco
Vriesea friburgensis Mez – Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay
Vriesea garlippiana Leme – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea gelatinosa R.L.Moura & A.F.Costa
Vriesea gigantea Gaudich. – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea gladioflammans E.Pereira & Reitz – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea gracilior (L.B.Sm.) Leme – Espírito Santo
Vriesea graciliscapa W.Weber – Bahia
Vriesea gradata (Baker) Mez – southeastern Brazil
Vriesea grandiflora Leme – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea guttata Linden & André – southern Brazil
Vriesea harmsiana (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Peru
Vriesea heterostachys (Baker) L.B.Sm. – southern Brazil
Vriesea hieroglyphica (Carrière) É.Morren – from Espírito Santo to Paraná
Vriesea hitchcockiana (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru
Vriesea hodgei L.B.Sm. – Colombia
Vriesea hoehneana L.B.Sm. – southern Brazil
Vriesea hydrophora Ule – southern Brazil
Vriesea incurva (Griseb.) Read – Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Bolivia
Vriesea incurvata Gaudich. – southern Brazil
Vriesea inflata (Wawra) Wawra – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea interrogatoria L.B.Sm. – from Minas Gerais to São Paulo
Vriesea itatiaiae Wawra – southern Brazil
Vriesea johnstonii (Mez) L.B.Sm. & Pittendr. – Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana
Vriesea jonesiana Leme – São Paulo
Vriesea jonghei (K.Koch) É.Morren – Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil
Vriesea joyae E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea kautskyana E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea koideae Rauh – Peru
Vriesea lancifolia (Baker) L.B.Sm. – Bahia
Vriesea languida L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo
Vriesea laxa Mez – Venezuela
Vriesea leptantha Harms – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea lidicensis Reitz – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea lilliputiana Leme
Vriesea limae L.B.Sm. – Pernambuco
Vriesea limonensis Rauh – Ecuador
Vriesea linharesiae Leme & J.A.Siqueira – Bahia
Vriesea longicaulis (Baker) Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea longiscapa Ule – southern Brazil
Vriesea longisepala A.F.Costa – Bahia
Vriesea longistaminea C.C.Paula & Leme – Minas Gerais
Vriesea lubbersii (Baker) É.Morren ex Mez – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea lutheriana J.R.Grant – Costa Rica
Vriesea macrostachya (Bello) Mez – Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Trinidad; Carabobo State in Venezuela
Vriesea maculosa Mez – Bahia
Vriesea magna F.P.Uribbe & A.F.Costa
Vriesea maguirei L.B.Sm. – Venezuela, northern Brazil
Vriesea marceloi Versieux & T.Machado – Minas Gerais
Vriesea maxoniana (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Bolivia and Salta Province of Argentina
Vriesea medusa Versieux
Vriesea melgueiroi I.Ramírez & Carnevali
Vriesea menescalii E.Pereira & Leme – Espírito Santo
Vriesea michaelii W.Weber – Brazil; probably extinct
Vriesea microrachis J.Gomes-da-Silva & A.F.Costa – Brazil
Vriesea mimosoensis D.R.Couto, Kessous & A.F.Costa
Vriesea minarum L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais
Vriesea minor (L.B.Sm.) Leme – Minas Gerais
Vriesea minuta Leme – Bahia
Vriesea minutiflora Leme – Bahia
Vriesea mitoura L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State of Venezuela; Roraima
Vriesea modesta Mez – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea mollis Leme – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea monacorum L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais
Vriesea morrenii Wawra (also spelt Vriesea morreni)
Vriesea × morreniana É.Morren
Vriesea mourae Kessous, B.Neves & A.F.Costa
Vriesea muelleri Mez – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea myriantha (Baker) Betancur (syn. Tillandsia myriantha
)

Vriesea nanuzae Leme – Minas Gerais
Vriesea neoglutinosa Mez – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea noblickii Martinelli & Leme – Bahia
Vriesea nubicola Leme – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea oligantha (Baker) Mez – Bahia, Minas Gerais
Vriesea olmosana L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru
Vriesea oxapampae Rauh – Pasco Province of Peru
Vriesea pabstii McWill. & L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo, São Paulo
Vriesea paradoxa Mez – Bahia
Vriesea paraibica Wawra – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea paratiensis E.Pereira – from Rio de Janeiro to Paraná
Vriesea pardalina Mez – southern Brazil
Vriesea parviflora L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo
Vriesea parvula Rauh – São Paulo
Vriesea pastuchoffiana Glaz. ex Mez – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea patula (Mez) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru
Vriesea pauciflora Mez – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea pauperrima E.Pereira – eastern + southern Brazil
Vriesea penduliflora L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea penduliscapa Rauh – Moreno-Santiago region of Ecuador
Vriesea pereirae L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo
Vriesea pereziana (André) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Peru
Vriesea petraea (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – El Oro region of Ecuador
Vriesea philippocoburgi Wawra
Vriesea pinottii Reitz – southern Brazil
Vriesea piscatrix Versieux & Wand.
Vriesea platynema Gaudich. – Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Misiones Provindce of Argentina
Vriesea platzmannii É.Morren – southern Brazil
Vriesea pleiosticha (Griseb.) Gouda (synonym Mezobromelia pleiosticha) – Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, Ecuador, northern Brazil
Vriesea poenulata (Baker) É.Morren ex Mez – Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea portentosa Leme
Vriesea procera (Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Wittm. – Trinidad, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina
Vriesea pseudoatra Leme – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea pseudoligantha Philcox – Bahia
Vriesea psittacina (Hook.) Lindl. – Brazil, Paraguay
Vriesea pulchra Leme & L.Kollmann – Espírito Santo
Vriesea punctulata E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea racinae L.B.Sm. – Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
Vriesea rafaelii Leme – Minas Gerais
Vriesea rastrensis Leme – Santa Catarina in southern Brazil
Vriesea rectifolia Rauh – Pernambuco but probably extinct
Vriesea recurvata Gaudich. – Bahia
Vriesea regnellii Mez – Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea reitzii Leme & And.Costa – southern Brazil
Vriesea repandostachys Leme – Espírito Santo
Vriesea × retroflexa É.Morren
Vriesea revoluta B.R.Silva – Espírito Santo
Vriesea rhodostachys L.B.Sm. – Bahia, Espírito Santo
Vriesea roberto-seidelii W.Weber – Bahia
Vriesea robusta (Griseb.) L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Venezuela
Vriesea rodigasiana É.Morren – from Bahia to Santa Catarina
Vriesea roethii W.Weber – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea rubens J.Gomes-da-Silva & A.F.Costa – Santa Catarina
Vriesea rubra (Ruiz & Pav.) Beer – Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Guyana
Vriesea rubrobracteata Rauh – Colombia
Vriesea rubroviridis F.P.Uribbe & A.F.Costa
Vriesea rubyae E.Pereira – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea ruschii L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais, Bahia, Espírito Santo
Vriesea sagasteguii L.B.Sm. – Peru
Vriesea saltensis Leme & L.Kollmann
Vriesea sanctaparecidae Leme
Vriesea sanfranciscana Versieux & Wand. – Minas Gerais
Vriesea santaleopoldinensis Leme & L.Kollmann – Espírito Santo
Vriesea saundersii (Carrière) É.Morren (synonym Vriesea botafogensis) – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea saxicola L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais
Vriesea sazimae Leme – Minas Gerais, São Paulo
Vriesea scalaris É.Morren – Venezuela, Brazil
Vriesea sceptrum Mez – from Bahia to São Paulo
Vriesea schultesiana L.B.Sm. – Colombia
Vriesea schunkii Leme – Espírito Santo
Vriesea schwackeana Mez – from Bahia to São Paulo
Vriesea secundiflora Leme – Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
Vriesea segadas-viannae L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais
Vriesea seideliana W.Weber – Espírito Santo
Vriesea serrana E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea serranegrensis Leme – Minas Gerais
Vriesea silvana Leme – Bahia
Vriesea simplex (Vell.) Beer – Trinidad, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil
Vriesea simulans Leme – Minas Gerais
Vriesea sincorana Mez – Bahia
Vriesea skotakii H.Luther & K.F.Norton – Panam
Vriesea socialis L.B.Sm. – Colombia, Venezuela
Vriesea sparsiflora L.B.Sm. – from Espírito Santo to São Paulo
Vriesea speckmaieri W.Till – Carabobo State of Venezuela
Vriesea stricta L.B.Sm. – Minas Gerais
Vriesea strobeliae Rauh – Ecuador
Vriesea sucrei L.B.Sm. & Read – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea sulcata L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State of Venezuela
Vriesea swartzii (Baker) Mez – Jamaica
Vriesea takahashiana Leme & W.Till
Vriesea taritubensis E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo
Vriesea tequendamae (André) L.B.Sm. – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Vriesea teresopolitana Leme – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea thyrsoidea Mez – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea tijucana E.Pereira – eastern Brazil
Vriesea tillandsioides L.B.Sm. – Peru
Vriesea triangularis Reitz – Santa Catarina
Vriesea triligulata Mez – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea tubipetala Leme & R.L.Moura
Vriesea unilateralis (Baker) Mez – from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea vagans (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – eastern + southern Brazil
Vriesea vellozicola Leme & J.A.Siqueira – Espírito Santo
Vriesea vexata Leme
Vriesea vexillata L.B.Sm. – Colombia
Vriesea vidalii L.B.Sm. & Handro – Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea vulpinoidea L.B.Sm. – from São Paulo to Santa Catarina
Vriesea wawrana Antoine (also spelt Vriesea wawranea; synonym Vriesea oleosa) – Bahia, Rio de Janeiro
Vriesea weberi E.Pereira & I.A.Penna – Espírito Santo
Vriesea wuelfinghoffii Rauh & E.Gross – Azuay Province in Ecuador
Vriesea wurdackii L.B.Sm. – Amazonas State of Venezuela
Vriesea zamorensis (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. – Ecuador, Peru
Vriesea zildae R.L.Moura & A.F.Costa
Vriesea zonata Leme & J.A.Siqueira – Alagoas State in eastern Brazil