''Steyerbromelia'' (named after Julian A. Steyermark, an American plant collector, author, and editor) is a

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of plants in the

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Bromeliaceae, subfamily

Navioideae Navioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliad family, Bromeliaceae. It contains four or five genera, formerly placed in a more broadly defined subfamily Pitcairnioideae. Genera , the Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads accepted five genera, while Plants of ...

. All the known species in the genus are

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found else ...

to southern

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

,Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> and northern Brazil and Colombia.

Species

*'' Steyerbromelia deflexa'' L.B. Smith & Robinson *'' Steyerbromelia diffusa'' L.B. Smith, Steyermark & Robinson *'' Steyerbromelia discolor'' L.B. Smith & Robinson *'' Steyerbromelia plowmanii'' (L.B. Smith, Steyermark & Robinson) Robinson & D. Taylor *'' Steyerbromelia ramosa'' (L.B. Smith) B. Holst *'' Steyerbromelia thomasii'' (L.B. Smith, Steyermark & Robinson) B. Holst Kew also accepts;

References

External links

BSI Genera Gallery
photos Bromeliaceae genera Endemic flora of Venezuela Plants described in 1987 Flora of North Brazil Flora of Colombia {{Bromeliad-stub