Diversity and levels of endemism of the Bromeliaceae of Costa Rica – an updated checklist | Zendy

Daniel Caceres Gonzalez | Zendy; Katharina Schulte | Zendy; Marco Schmidt | Zendy; Georg Zizka | Zendy

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Diversity and levels of endemism of the Bromeliaceae of Costa Rica – an updated checklist

Author(s) -

Daniel Caceres Gonzalez,

Katharina Schulte,

Marco Schmidt,

Georg Zizka

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

phytokeys

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.511

H-Index - 16

eISSN - 1314-2011

pISSN - 1314-2003

DOI - 10.3897/phytokeys.29.4937

Subject(s) - bromeliaceae , biology , epiphyte , endemism , humanities , panama , ecology , geography , art

An updated inventory of the Bromeliaceae for Costa Rica is presented including citations of representative specimens for each species. The family comprises 18 genera and 198 species in Costa Rica, 32 species being endemic to the country. Additional 36 species are endemic to Costa Rica and Panama. Only 4 of the 8 bromeliad subfamilies occur in Costa Rica, with a strong predominance of Tillandsioideae (7 genera/150 spp.; 75.7% of all bromeliad species in Costa Rica). 124 species (62.6%) grow exclusively epiphytic, additional 59 spp. (29.8%) are facultative epiphytes. The most diverse genus is Werauhia, with 59 species (29.8% of the Costa Rican bromeliad flora), followed by Tillandsia with 40 species (20.2%) and Guzmania with 28 spp. (8.6%).

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