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Deuterocohnia
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Deuterocohnia

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Deuterocohnia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae, endemic to South America. The genus is named for Ferdinand Julius Cohn, Jewish botanist and bacteriologist.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPoales
  5. FamilyBromeliaceae
Native toArgentina Northwest, Bolivia, Brazil West-Central, Chile North, Paraguay, Peru
Observations recorded2,121

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
31
With media
18
Family
Bromeliaceae
Collections
JBRJ, MICH, NY, WIS, UFPR, MO
Recorded in
BolíVia, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Brasil

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Deuterocohnia is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Pitcairnioideae, endemic to South America. The genus is named for Ferdinand Julius Cohn, Jewish botanist and bacteriologist.

Plants once described as belonging to the genus Abromeitiella have been reevaluated and reclassified within Deuterocohnia following modern DNA analysis.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deuterocohnia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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