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Accession Data:

Brocchinia reducta Baker

  • Common Name: Brocchinia
  • Family: Bromeliaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Venezuela (Bolívar) to Guyana & Brazil (Roraima)

  • Description: It is terrestrial rather than epiphytic, grows in nutrient-poor soils in southern Venezuela and Guyana, is seldom shaded by other vegetation, and its tanks often contain dead insects, such as ants. A sweet odor emanating from the tank may be the means of attracting insects. Its leaves, too, produce a waxy powder which, as in Catopsis berteroniana, seems to prevent escape of trapped insects. The highly acid water in its tank may help the action of proteases in digesting insect bodies. Neither this plant nor C. berteroniana has been shown to produce proteases (unlike more familiar carnivorous plants such as Nepenthes and Sarracenia pitcher plants), but it could be argued that production of proteases by these plants would be an unnecessary expenditure of energy when bacterial and fungal decomposition of materials already functions in the tanks, and a means of absorption (trichomes) is present.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 199600030
  • Source: California Carnivores
  • Accession Date: 12-06-1996
  • Bench: 1319 - NEOA: South Bench W
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 3 confirmed on 02-26-2025

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Liliopsida
  • SubClass: commelinids
  • Order: Poales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Bromeliaceae
  • SubFamily: Brochinioideae
  • Tribe:
  • SubTribe:

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025
2024
2023
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2021
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2018
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References (internal):

  • Carnivorous Plants
  • Plants used in EEB 2244 - General Ecology
  • ECE 2019 - Scavenger Hunt
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Guyana / Venezuela / Brazil North

References (external):

  1. Frank, J.H. Carnivorous Bromeliads, 1996. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.
  3. WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.

data regenerated on Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:54:19 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Brocchinia reducta

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Subfamily Brochinioideae

  • Brocchinia reducta

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  • Tillandsia usneoides W/C
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W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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