''Dyckia'' is a

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s in the

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Bromeliaceae, subfamily

Pitcairnioideae Pitcairnioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliad family, Bromeliaceae. Traditionally, it was a large subfamily, comprising all those species with winged or more rarely naked seeds. Molecular phylogenetic studies showed that traditional Pitcairni ...

. The genus is named after the Prussian botanist, botanical artist and horticulturist The Prince and Earl of Salm Reifferscheid-Dyck (1773–1861). Dyckias, with stiff and thorny leaves, prefer rocky and/or sunny areas and have a natural tendency to clump leading to thick, large mats. The subfamily Pitcairnioideae contains several "terrestrial" members of the Bromeliaceae, with cultivated genera including ''Dyckia'', ''

Hechtia ''Hechtia'' is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, and is the sole genus of the subfamily Hechtioideae, containing 75 species. Its species are native to Mexico, Central America, and Texas. The genus is named for Julius Gottfried Conr ...

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Pitcairnia ''Pitcairnia'' is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae. It was named for William Pitcairn, Scottish physician and gardener (1711–1791). The genus ''Pitcairnia'' ranks as the second most prolific of the bromel ...

'' and '' Puya''. Considered to be the most ancient lineage of bromeliads, they are endemic to arid and high-altitude regions of

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and the central part of

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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Smith, L.B. & R. J. Downs. 1974. Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae), Part I. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 14(1): 1–660

Species

* '' Dyckia acutiflora'' Leme & Z.J.G.Miranda - Goiás * '' Dyckia affinis'' Baker - Paraguay * '' Dyckia agudensis'' Irgang & Sobral - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia alba'' Winkler - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia areniticola'' Leme - Mato Grosso * ''

Dyckia atratiflora ''Dyckia'' is a genus of plants in the family (biology), family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae. The genus is named after the Prussian botanist, botanical artist and horticulturist The Prince and Earl of Salm Reifferscheid-Dyck (1773–1 ...

'' P.J.Braun, Esteves & Scharf - Goiás * '' Dyckia aurea'' L.B. Smith - Goiás * '' Dyckia barthlottii'' R.Vásquez & Ibisch - Bolivia * '' Dyckia beateae'' E. Gross & Rauh - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia beloisae'' L.B.Sm. - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia brachyphylla'' L.B. Smith - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia brachystachya'' Rauh & E. Gross - Bahia * '' Dyckia bracteata'' (Wittmack) Mez - Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo * '' Dyckia brasiliana'' L.B. Smith - Brasília * '' Dyckia braunii'' Rauh - Goiás * '' Dyckia brevifolia'' Baker - from Paraná to Santa Catarina * '' Dyckia burchellii'' Baker - Bahia, Goiás * '' Dyckia burle-marxii'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Bahia * '' Dyckia cabrerae'' L.B. Smith & Reitz - from Paraná to Santa Catarina * '' Dyckia cangaphila'' P.J.Braun, Esteves & Scharf - Goiás * '' Dyckia choristaminea'' Mez - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia cinerea'' Mez - Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo * '' Dyckia commixta'' Hassler - Paraguay, Paraná * '' Dyckia consimilis'' Mez - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia coximensis'' L.B. Smith & Reitz - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia crassifolia'' Rauh - Bolivia * '' Dyckia crocea'' L.B. Smith - Paraná * '' Dyckia dawsonii'' L.B. Smith - Goiás * '' Dyckia delicata'' Larocca & Sobral - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia deltoidea'' (L.B. Smith) L.B. Smith - Paraná * '' Dyckia densiflora'' Schultes f. - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia dissitiflora'' Schultes f. - Piauí, Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia distachya'' Hassler - Paraguay, Brazil * '' Dyckia domfelicianensis'' T. Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia duckei'' L.B. Smith - Pará, Maranhão * '' Dyckia dusenii'' L.B. Smith - Paraná, Santa Catarina * '' Dyckia edwardii'' P.J.Braun, Esteves & Scharf - Goiás * '' Dyckia elata'' Mez - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia elisabethae'' Winkler - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia elongata'' Mez - Bahia * '' Dyckia eminens'' Mez - Goiás * '' Dyckia encholirioides'' ( Gaudichaud) Mez - São Paulo, Santa Catarina * '' Dyckia espiritosantensis'' Leme & A.P.Fontana - Espírito Santo * '' Dyckia estevesii'' Rauh - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia excelsa'' Leme - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia exserta'' L.B. Smith - Brazil, Paraguay * '' Dyckia ferox'' Mez - Mato Grosso, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay * '' Dyckia ferruginea'' Mez - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia floribunda'' Grisebach - Argentina * '' Dyckia formosensis'' Leme & Z.J.G.Miranda - Goiás * '' Dyckia fosteriana'' L.B. Smith - Paraná * '' Dyckia frigida'' Hooker f. - Paraná * '' Dyckia glabrifolia'' Leme & O.B.C.Ribeiro - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia glandulosa'' L.B. Smith & Reitz - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia goehringii'' E. Gross & Rauh - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia goiana'' L.B. Smith - Goiás * '' Dyckia gouveiana'' Leme & O.B.C.Ribeiro - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia gracilis'' Mez - Argentina, Bolivia * '' Dyckia grandidentata'' P.J.Braun & Esteves - Mato Grosso do Sul * '' Dyckia granmogulensis'' Rauh - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia hatschbachii'' L.B. Smith - Paraná * '' Dyckia hebdingii'' L.B. Smith - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia hohenbergioides'' Leme & E. Esteves - Bahia * '' Dyckia horridula'' Mez - Brazil * '' Dyckia ibicuiensis'' T. Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia ibiramensis'' Reitz - Santa Catarina * '' Dyckia insignis'' Hassler - Paraguay * '' Dyckia irmgardiae'' L.B. Smith - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia irwinii'' L.B. Smith - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia joanae-marcioi'' P.J.Braun, Esteves & Scharf - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia jonesiana'' Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia julianae'' T. Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia kranziana'' Leme - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia lagoensis'' Mez - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia leptostachya'' Baker - Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina * '' Dyckia limae'' L.B. Smith - Pernambuco * '' Dyckia lindevaldae'' Rauh - Goiás * '' Dyckia linearifolia'' Baker - Brazil * '' Dyckia lunaris'' Leme - Goiás * '' Dyckia lutziana'' L.B. Smith - São Paulo * '' Dyckia macedoi'' L.B. Smith - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia machrisiana'' L.B. Smith - Goiás * '' Dyckia macropoda'' L.B. Smith - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia maracasensis'' Ule - Bahia * '' Dyckia maritima'' Baker - southern Brazil * '' Dyckia marnier-lapostollei'' L.B. Smith - Minas Gerais, Goiás * '' Dyckia martinellii'' B.R. Silva & Forzza - Rio de Janeiro * '' Dyckia mauriziae'' Esteves & Hofacker - Goiás * '' Dyckia mello-barretoi'' L.B. Smith - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia mezii'' Krapp''Dyckia mezii''
at the Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families * '' Dyckia microcalyx'' Baker - Misiones, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Paraguay * '' Dyckia milagrensis'' Leme - Bahia * '' Dyckia minarum'' Mez - from Goiás to Santa Catarina * '' Dyckia mirandana'' Leme & Z.J.G.Miranda - Goiás * '' Dyckia mitis'' Castellanos - Misiones * '' Dyckia montezumensis'' Leme - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia monticola'' L.B. Smith & Reitz - Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina * '' Dyckia nana'' Leme & O.B.C.Ribeiro - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia nervata'' Rauh - Bahia * '' Dyckia niederleinii'' Mez - Misiones * '' Dyckia nigrospinulata'' Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia odorata'' L.B. Smith - Goiás * '' Dyckia orobanchoides'' Mez - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia paraensis'' L.B. Smith - Pará, Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia pauciflora'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Goiás * '' Dyckia paucispina'' Leme & E. Esteves - Mato Grosso do Sul * '' Dyckia pectinata'' L.B. Smith & Reitz - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia pernambucana'' L.B. Smith - Pernambuco * '' Dyckia platyphylla'' L.B. Smith - Bahia * '' Dyckia polycladus'' L.B. Smith - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia pottiorum'' Leme - Mato Grosso do Sul * '' Dyckia princeps'' Lemaire - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia pseudococcinea'' L.B. Smith - Rio de Janeiro * '' Dyckia pulquinensis'' Wittmack - Bolivia (Santa Cruz) * '' Dyckia pumila'' L.B. Smith - Goiás * '' Dyckia racemosa'' Baker - Goiás * '' Dyckia racinae'' L.B. Smith - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia ragonesei'' Castellanos - Argentina * '' Dyckia rariflora'' Schultes f. - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia reitzii'' L.B. Smith - southern Brazil * '' Dyckia remotiflora'' Otto & Dietrich - Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil * '' Dyckia retardata'' Winkler - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia retroflexa'' Winkler - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia richardii'' P.J.Braun & Esteves - Goiás * '' Dyckia rigida'' T. Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia rondonopolitana'' Leme - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia rupestris'' W. Till & Morawetz - Pernambuco * '' Dyckia saxatilis'' Mez - central Brazil * '' Dyckia schwackeana'' Mez - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia secunda'' L.B. Smith -Bahia * '' Dyckia secundifolia'' Leme - Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia selloa'' (K. Koch) Baker - southern Brazil * '' Dyckia sellowiana'' Mez - Brasília * '' Dyckia sickii'' L.B. Smith - Pará * '' Dyckia silvae'' L.B. Smith - Pará * '' Dyckia simulans'' L.B. Smith - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia sordida'' Baker - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia spinulosa'' L.B. Smith & Reitz - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia stenophylla'' L.B. Smith - Goiás * '' Dyckia stolonifera'' P.J.Braun & Esteves - Mato Grosso do Sul * '' Dyckia subinermis'' Mez - Misiones * '' Dyckia tenebrosa'' Leme & H. Luther - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia tenuis'' Mez - Goiás, Mato Grosso * '' Dyckia tobatiensis'' Hassler - Paraguay * '' Dyckia tomentella'' Mez - Paraguay * '' Dyckia trichostachya'' Baker - Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo * '' Dyckia tuberosa'' (Vellozo) Beer - from Bahia to Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia tweediei'' Mez - Salta, Santiago del Estero * '' Dyckia uleana'' Mez - Goiás * '' Dyckia ursina'' L.B. Smith - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia velascana'' Mez - Argentina * '' Dyckia velloziifolia'' Mez - Paraguay * '' Dyckia vestita'' Hassler - Paraguay * '' Dyckia vicentensis'' Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia virgata'' Mez - Paraguay * '' Dyckia waechteri'' Strehl - Rio Grande do Sul * '' Dyckia walteriana'' Leme - Paraná * '' Dyckia warmingii'' Mez - Minas Gerais * '' Dyckia weddelliana'' Baker - Minas Gerais

Gallery

Image:Dyckia platyphylla 4.jpg, Dyckia platyphylla nflorescenceImage:Dyckia remotiflora 1.jpg, Dyckia remotiflora Image:Dyckia maracasensis HabitusInflorescence BotGardBln0906a.jpg, Dyckia maracasensis (in foreground) Image:Dyckia_CherryCoke4_USF_Asit.jpg, DYCKIA Cherry Coke (1 of 3) Image:Dyckia_Red2_USF_Asit.jpg, DYCKIA Red (2 of 3) Image:Dyckia_Green6_USF_Asit.jpg, DYCKIA Green (3 of 3)

References

External links

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photos {{Taxonbar, from=Q136720 Bromeliaceae genera Flora of South America Flora of the Atlantic Forest