Ananas

Ananas
	Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:	Bromelioideae
Genus:	Ananas; Mill.
Synonyms
	Ananassa Lindl.; Pseudananas Hassl. ex Harms in H.G.A.Engler;

Short description: Genus of fruits and plants

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]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew". http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=219647.
↑ ^2.0 ^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.
↑ 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.

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Ananas

Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Subfamily:	Bromelioideae
Genus:	Ananas Mill.

Synonyms^[1]
Ananassa Lindl. Pseudananas Hassl. ex Harms in H.G.A.Engler