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Fascicularia
Sign in to saveFascicularia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the pineapple family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus name is from the Latin fasciculus (bundle) and arius (pertaining to).
Species
Genus
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassOctocorallia
- OrderMalacalcyonacea
- FamilyParalcyoniidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Bromeliaceae
- Collections
- WIS, F, NRM, YPM
- Recorded in
- Chile, Argentina
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Fascicularia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the pineapple family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae. The genus name is from the Latin fasciculus (bundle) and arius (pertaining to).
Only one species is known, Fascicularia bicolor. It is endemic to Chile and reportedly naturalized in France and the extreme south and west of Great Britain. In the wild, all Fascicularias are saxicolous (growing on rocks) or epiphytes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fascicularia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.