Glomeropitcarnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae. The genus name is from the Latin `glomero” (to form into a ball) and the genus Pitcairnia. It has two known species, native to Venezuela, Trinidad and the Lesser Antilles. ==Taxonomy== This plant group had been classified as a genera within the Pitcair.....
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(from the article `Bromeliales`) ...Bromeliads with these broad, overlapping, concave leaf bases are known as tank bromeliads because the leaf bases serve as water-holding sites, or ...
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