Ananas

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Short description: Genus of fruits and plants

Ananas
Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Scientific classification e
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Synonyms[1]
  • Ananassa Lindl.
  • Pseudananas Hassl. ex Harms in H.G.A.Engler

Ananas is a plant genus in the family Bromeliaceae.[1] It is native to South America. The genus contains Ananas comosus, the pineapple.[2]

Species

The genus Ananas includes only two species:[2][3]

Image Scientific name Common Name Native Distribution
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. Pineapple East of the Andes, from northern South America to northern Argentina.[2]
Ananas macrodontes E.Morren False Pineapple Coastal Brazil and basins of Parana and Paraguay rivers to northern Argentina.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=219647. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bartholomew, D. P.; Paull, Robert E.; Rohrbach, K. G. (2002) (in en). The Pineapple: Botany, Production, and Uses. CABI. pp. 23–28. ISBN 9780851999791. 
  3. Govaerts, Rafaël; d'Eeckenbrugge, Geo Coppens (2015). "Synonymies in Ananas (Bromeliaceae)" (in en). Phytotaxa 239 (3): 273–279. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.239.3.8. ISSN 1179-3163. 

Wikidata ☰ Q147316 entry




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