The Jeweled Armor of Tillandsia—Multifaceted or Elongated Trichomes Provide Photoprotection [PDF]
, 2007 Foliar trichomes of gray-leaved Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae) are highly reflective, suggesting a role in protecting the leaf against direct sunlight in exposed niches.
Pierce, Simon
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2010 Ananas ananassoides é uma planta perene com hábito de crescimento herbáceo e que tem enorme potencial paisagístico porque apresenta flores e brácteas com coloração exuberante e folhas com margens espinescentes que estão distribuídas em roseta. O objetivo
Maristela Rosália Anastácio +1 more
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Bromeliad flora of Oaxaca, Mexico: Richness and distribution
Acta Botanica Mexicana, 2007 Se presenta el estado actual del conocimiento de la flora bromeliológica del estado de Oaxaca, México. La entidad ocupa el primer lugar en el país en cuanto a número de especies de Bromeliaceae se refiere. Los resultados obtenidos de la revisión de 2,624 ejemplares herborizados, correspondientes a 1,643 colectas, así como la revisión de bibliografía ...
Nancy Martínez-Correa +3 more
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Applications in Plant Sciences, 2014 Premise of the study: Microsatellite primers were developed for Orthophytum ophiuroides, a rupicolous bromeliad species endemic to neotropical rocky fields.
Felipe Aoki-Gonçalves +3 more
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Aechmea distichantha (Bromeliaceae) Epiphytes, Potential New Habitat for Aedes Aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Collected in the Province of Tucumán, Northwestern Argentina [PDF]
, 2013 Larval habitats of Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) and Culex (Culex) quinquefasciatus Say in the epiphyte Aechmea distichantha Lemaire (Poales: Bromeliaceae), were found and described both in semi-urban and rural localities of piedmont forest of the
Dantur Juri, Maria Julia +3 more
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Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest [PDF]
, 2018 Aechmea distichantha, a widely-distributed facultative epiphytic bromeliad species, is present from rainforests to xerophytic forests. At its southernmost distribution (Humid Chaco) it grows in the understory and forest edges.
Barberis, Ignacio Martin +2 more
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Effect of calcium fertilization on silver vase bromeliad (Aechmea fasciata)
Ornamental Horticulture, 2019 The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of different concentrations of calcium on growth and development of silver vase bromeliad (Aechmea fasciata).
Claus Baumgarten Milioni +5 more
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Micropropagação de Aechmea setigera Mart. ex Schult. & Schult. f.: uma bromélia endêmica da Amazônia Ocidental. [PDF]
, 2019 As bromélias da Amazônia são em geral pouco conhecidas. Aechmea setigera é uma bromélia endêmica da Amazônia com potencial ornamental. O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar as respostas fisiológicas sob efeito de reguladores de crescimento nas etapas da ...
FERMINO JUNIOR, P. C. P. +4 more
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What drives detrital decomposition in neotropical tank bromeliads?
Hydrobiologia, 2017 Decomposition experiments that control leaf litter species across environments help to disentangle the roles of litter traits and consumer diversity, but once we account for leaf litter effects, they tell us little about the variance in decomposition explained by shifts in environmental conditions versus food-web structure.
Leroy, Céline +6 more
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Urban epiphytes: Bromeliad diversity in a green cover gradient across a Neotropical streetscape
, 2023 Felipe Aoki‐Gonçalves +3 more
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