Bromeliaceae

family of monocot flowering plants
Taxon taxon Q156529
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Summary

Bromeliaceae is a taxon[1]. Bromeliaceae ranks in the top 0.52% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,775 views/month, #1,015 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Bromeliales[4], Commelinids[5], Liliiflorae[6], Epigynae[7], Farinosae[8], Poales[9]
  • Taxon name: Bromeliaceae[10]
  • Commons category: Bromeliaceae[11]
  • Taxonomic type: Bromelia[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bromeliaceae[13]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 13(3)[15], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=169[17]
  • Taxon common name: bromeliovité[18], Bromeliengewächse[19], Bromeliads[20], Ananaskasvit[21], Broméliacées[22], Բրոմելազգիներ[23], パイナップル科[24], Bromelia-achtigen[25], Bromeliowate[26], బ్రొమిలియేసి[27], วงศ์สับปะรด[28], Ananasgiller[29], Họ Dứa[30], 凤梨科[31]
  • Uses: CAM photosynthesis[32]

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Identifiers

Bromeliaceae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 49570[33]. Bromeliaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 4613[34]. Bromeliaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 8198[35]. Bromeliaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3740[36]. Bromeliaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 42330[37].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Bromeliaceae include Bromeliad Trilogy[38], a novel series[39], written by Terry Pratchett[40].

Why It Matters

Bromeliaceae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] Bromeliaceae is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for Bromeliaceae include Bromeliad Trilogy[38], a novel series[39], written by Terry Pratchett[40].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien (ed. 9). wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [34] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [37] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [35] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [36] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . panmai.com. panmai.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] ↑ . A dataset on catalogue of alien plants in China. wikidata.org.
  34. [32] ↑ . Physiological Ecology of Tropical Plants. wikidata.org.
  35. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Apni id → 54687
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  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3QHqbf
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  4. 23w ago · Ziv · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Pineapple1.JPG, Tillandsia usneoides04.jpg
    Taxon rank → family
    Uses → —
    Taxonomic type → Bromelia
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