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Genus: Pitcairnia Life
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Poales > Family:
Bromeliaceae
About 263 species, native from Mexico through to South
America and also including the West Indies. An outlying species is found in West
Africa and is evidently the only non-American species in the Bromeliaceae.
Within its native distribution species in this genus are mainly found in dry,
rocky areas. Ten species are cultivated in southern Africa.
Species cultivated in southern Africa
List from Glen (2002).
Pitcairnia altensteinii
Native to Venezuela. |
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Pitcairnia andreana
Native to Colombia. |
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Pitcairnia atrorubens
Native from Mexico to Colombia. |
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Pitcairnia fractifolia
Native to Peru. |
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Pitcairnia heterophylla
Native from Mexico to Peru. |
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Pitcairnia karwinskyana
Native to Mexico. |
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Pitcairnia megasepala
Native from Costa Rica to Colombia. |
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Pitcairnia moritziana
Native to Venezuela. |
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Pitcairnia punicea
Native to Mexico and Guatemala. |
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Pitcairnia undulata
Native to Brazil. |
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