Vriesea carinataWawra

WFO wfo-0000601233 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. a Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-01 / obs. 195513131
Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. b Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195512340
Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. c Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195512771
Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. d Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190856268
Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. e Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190854130
Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. f Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188870537
Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. g Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183953586
Vriesea carinata, photographed by Cajá-manga
fig. h Cajá-manga, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182028768

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Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Vriesea carinata is native: Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast Brazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil Southeast
Native distribution of Vriesea carinata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil Northeast BZE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 79 in flower of 118 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Vriesea carinata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 79 of 118 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Tillandsia carinata (Wawra) Baker
  • Vriesea brachystachys Regel
  • Vriesea carinata f. intermedia Wawra
  • Vriesea carinata var. flavominiata Leme
  • Vriesea carinata var. mangaratibensis Leme & And.Costa
  • Vriesea carinata var. wawra E.C.Bertram
  • Vriesea psittacina var. brachystachys (Regel) É.Morren
  • Vriesea psittacina var. carinata (Wawra) É.Morren

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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