Ananas

Short description: Genus of fruits and plants

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

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

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 Gallery
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Species

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

Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Native Distribution

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| 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]

## Gallery

* Pineapple plantation

* Ananas comosus, habitat, Suriname

* A pineapple in a garden in Martinique (Caribbean Sea)

## 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.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q147316 entry

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