Billbergia
Billbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus, named for the Swedish botanist, zoologist, and anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg, is divided into two subgenera: Billbergia and Helicodea. They are native to forest and scrub, up to an altitude of, in southern Mexico, the West Indies, Central America and South America, with many species endemic to Brazil.
They are rosette-forming, evergreen perennials, usually epiphytic in habit, often with brilliantly coloured flowers.Species
- Billbergia acreana H. Luther - Acre
- Billbergia alfonsi-joannis Reitz - from Espírito Santo to Santa Catarina
- Billbergia amandae W.Weber - Brazil, but probably extinct
- Billbergia ambigua Betancur & N.R.Salinas - Antioquia
- Billbergia amoena Lindley - Brazil
- Billbergia brachysiphon L.B. Smith - Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador
- Billbergia bradeana L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia brasiliensis L.B. Smith - Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia buchholtzii Mez - Brazil, but probably extinct
- Billbergia cardenasii L.B. Smith - Bolivia
- Billbergia castelensis E. Pereira - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia chlorantha L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia × claudioi Leme - Brazil
- Billbergia cylindrostachya Mez - Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia dasilvae Leme - Rondônia
- Billbergia decora Poeppig & Endlicher - Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Billbergia distachya Mez - southern Brazil
- Billbergia domingosmartinsis E.Gross - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia elegans Martius ex Schultes f. - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia eloiseae L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Colombia
- Billbergia euphemiae E. Morren - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia formosa Ule - Peru
- Billbergia horrida Regel - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia incarnata Schultes f. - Peru
- Billbergia iridifolia Lindley - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia issingiana T. Krömer & E. Gross - Bolivia
- Billbergia jandebrabanderi R. Vásquez & Ibisch - Bolivia
- Billbergia kautskyana E. Pereira - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia kuhlmannii L.B. Smith - Brazil, Bolivia
- Billbergia laxiflora L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia leptopoda L.B. Smith - Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia lietzei E. Morren - Espírito Santo
- Billbergia lymanii E. Pereira & Leme - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia macracantha E. Pereira - Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia macrocalyx Hooker - Bahia, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia macrolepis L.B. Smith - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana
- Billbergia magnifica Mez - Brazil, Paraguay
- Billbergia manarae Steyermark - Venezuela
- Billbergia meyeri Mez - Brazil, Bolivia
- Billbergia microlepis L.B. Smith - Bolivia
- Billbergia minarum L.B. Smith - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia morelii Brongniart - eastern Brazil
- Billbergia nana E. Pereira - Bahia, Espírito Santo
- Billbergia nutans H. Wendland ex Regel - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
- Billbergia oxysepala Mez - Acre, Ecuador
- Billbergia pallidiflora Liebmann - Mexico and Central America from Sinaloa to Nicaragua
- Billbergia pohliana Mez - Minas Gerais
- Billbergia porteana Brongniart ex Beer - Brazil, Paraguay
- Billbergia pyramidalis Lindley - Brazil, Venezuela, French Guiana, Lesser Antilles, Cuba; naturalized in Mauritius
- Billbergia reichardtii Wawra - Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais
- Billbergia robert-readii E. Gross & Rauh - Peru
- Billbergia rosea hortus ex Beer - Trinidad, Venezuela
- Billbergia rubicunda Mez - Suriname
- Billbergia rupestris L.B. Smith - Colombia, Acre
- Billbergia sanderiana E. Morren - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia seidelii L.B. Smith & Reitz - Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro
- Billbergia stenopetala Harms - Ecuador, Peru
- Billbergia tessmannii Harms - Peru
- Billbergia tweedieana Baker - southeastern Brazil
- Billbergia velascana M. Cardenas - Bolivia
- Billbergia violacea Beer - Guianas, Brazil
- Billbergia viridiflora H. Wendland - Belize, Guatemala, Tabasco
- Billbergia vittata Brongniart - eastern Brazil
- Billbergia zebrina Lindley - Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
Cultivars
- Billbergia 'Windii
- 'Fantasia'' Hybridizer: Mulford B. Foster
