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Wittmackia
- abbreviata
- altocaririensis
- amorimii
- andersoniana
- antillana
- bicolor
- brasiliensis
- burlemarxii
- canaliculata
- carvalhoi
- caymanensis
- conduruensis
- distans
- eriostachya
- fawcettii
- froesii
- gregaria
- guedesiae
- incompta
- inermis
- ituberaensis
- jamaicana
- laesslei
- laevigata
- limae
- lingulata
- lingulatoides
- linharesiorum
- maranguapensis
- mesoamericana
- negrilensis
- neoregelioides
- patentissima
- penduliflora
- pendulispica
- pernambucentris
- polycephala
- portoricensis
- rohanestyi
- silvana
- spinulosa
- sulbahianensis
- tentaculifera
- turbinocalyx
- urbaniana
- viridostigma
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Genus: WittmackiaWittmackia is a genus of the subfamily Bromelioideae. Native to the Caribbean, northern South American countries and Brazil, it is named in honor of German botanist, Marx Carl Ludwig Wittmack (1839-1929). The genus is closely aligned to Aechmea and Hohenbergia, with 44 species from these two genera transferred to the ressurected genus Wittmackia, after a 2017 study of the Ronnbergia Alliance. (Aguirre-Santoro, 2017).Number of accepted species in this genus is 46 (source: species counts in the Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads). |
 Wittmackia spinulosa Photo by Kerry Tate |
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