Example ⟳ +
An example collection, so you can see what this page does. Nothing added here is kept: leaving deletes it.
Alcantarea regina; photograph (c) Yoannis Domínguez, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Yoannis Domínguez, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2011-08-19

Alcantarea regina (Vell.) Harms

Bromeliaceae · Brazil Southeast

No habitat climate
Add one to my plants
Sow seed
Alcantarea regina, photograph (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY)Alcantarea regina, photograph (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY)Alcantarea regina, photograph (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY)Alcantarea regina, photograph (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY)Alcantarea regina, photograph (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY)Alcantarea regina, photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 18 photographs ›

Summary

Alcantarea regina is a plant species in the genus Alcantarea. This species is endemic to Brazil.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alcantarea regina", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Alcantarea

Alcantarea is a genus of flowering plants in the Bromeliaceae family. It is named for Dom Pedro d'Alcântara, second Emperor of Brazil. It is related to the genus Vriesea in the subfamily Tillandsioideae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Alcantarea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 9 of the 12 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-22.96, -44.041 · in the densest population, 11 records (92% of those in range)
Kew's description“lithophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 12 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 10 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 12 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Alcantarea regina, photograph 1did not loadAlcantarea regina, photograph 2did not loadAlcantarea regina, photograph 3did not loadAlcantarea regina, photograph 4did not loadAlcantarea regina, photograph 5did not loadAlcantarea regina, photograph 6did not load

Photographs: (c) Carlos Otávio Gussoni, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Alcantarea 6 in the reference

Alcantarea extensa Alcantarea extensa Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Nico Nelson from Sydney, AustraliaAlcantarea geniculata Alcantarea geniculata Bromeliaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAlcantarea glaziouana Alcantarea glaziouana Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozAlcantarea imperialis Alcantarea imperialis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesAlcantarea odorata Alcantarea odorata Bromeliaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotAlcantarea vinicolor Alcantarea vinicolor Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Vitor C. Dias Gonçalves

Names & registers

Also known as Alcantarea edmundoi; Tillandsia regina; Vriesea blokii; Vriesea edmundoi; Vriesea hillegeeriana and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
(Vell.) Harms
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
12 in range · 10 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Alcantarea regina (Vell.) Harms (the item's: IPNI 1084903-2, POWO 8050-2)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

Cultifolio

Opening your plants…