''Hylaeaicum'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

in the family Bromeliaceae, native to tropical northern South America. The taxon was first described by

Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule Ernst Heinrich Georg Ule (12 March 1854 – 15 July 1915) was a German botanist and plant collector. Biography He was born on 12 March 1854 in Halle an der Saale to science writer Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule (1820–1876). His brother was geograp ...

in 1935 as a subgenus of "''Aregelia''" (an illegitimate genus name). It was later treated as a subgenus of ''

Neoregelia ''Neoregelia'' is a genus of epiphytic flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae, native to South American rainforests. The genus name is for Eduard August von Regel, Director of St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens in Russ ...

'', before being raised to a full genus in 2021, a status accepted by both Plants of the World Online and the Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads.

Species

, Plants of the World Online accepted the following species: *'' Hylaeaicum eleutheropetalum'' (Ule) Leme & Forzza, syn. ''Neoregelia eleutheropetala'' *'' Hylaeaicum levianum'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme & Forzza, syn. ''Neoregelia leviana'' *'' Hylaeaicum margaretae'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme & Forzza, syn. ''Neoregelia margaretae'' *'' Hylaeaicum meeanum'' (Reitz) Leme & Forzza, syn. ''Neoregelia meeana'' *'' Hylaeaicum mooreanum'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme, Zizka & Aguirre-Santoro, syn. ''Neoregelia mooreana'' *'' Hylaeaicum myrmecophilum'' (Ule) Leme & Forzza, syn. ''Neoregelia myrmecophila'' *'' Hylaeaicum pendulum'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme, Zizka & Aguirre-Santoro, syn. ''Neoregelia pendula'' *'' Hylaeaicum peruvianum'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme, Zizka & Aguirre-Santoro, syn. ''Neoregelia peruviana'' *'' Hylaeaicum roseum'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme, Zizka & Aguirre-Santoro, syn. ''Neoregelia rosea'' *'' Hylaeaicum stoloniferum'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme, Zizka & Aguirre-Santoro, syn. ''Neoregelia stolonifera'' *'' Hylaeaicum tarapotoense'' (Rauh) Leme, Zizka & Aguirre-Santoro, syn. ''Neoregelia tarapotoensis'' *'' Hylaeaicum wurdackii'' (L.B.Sm.) Leme, Zizka & Aguirre-Santoro, syn. ''Neoregelia wurdackii''

References

Bromelioideae Bromeliaceae genera {{Bromelioideae-stub