Ananas

Ananas
Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Bromeliaceae
Subfamily: Bromelioideae
Genus: Ananas
Mill.
Synonyms
  • Ananassa Lindl.
  • Pseudananas Hassl. ex Harms in H.G.A.Engler

Ananas is a plant genus in the family Bromeliaceae. It is native to South America. The genus contains Ananas comosus, the pineapple.

Species

The genus Ananas includes only two species:

ImageScientific nameCommon nameNative Distribution
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.PineappleEast of the Andes, from northern South America to northern Argentina.
Ananas macrodontes E.MorrenFalse PineappleCoastal Brazil and basins of Parana and Paraguay rivers to northern Argentina.

References

  1. 1 2 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". apps.kew.org.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bartholomew, D. P.; Paull, Robert E.; Rohrbach, K. G. (2002). The Pineapple: Botany, Production, and Uses. CABI. pp. 23–28. ISBN 9780851999791.
  3. ↑ Govaerts, Rafaël; d'Eeckenbrugge, Geo Coppens (2015). "Synonymies in Ananas (Bromeliaceae)". Phytotaxa. 239 (3): 273–279. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.239.3.8. ISSN 1179-3163.

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