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Billbergia macrocalyx; photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SADinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Billbergia macrocalyx Hook.

Bromeliaceae · Brazil Northeast

No habitat climate
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Billbergia macrocalyx, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBillbergia macrocalyx, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBillbergia macrocalyx, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBillbergia macrocalyx, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBillbergia macrocalyx, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBillbergia macrocalyx, photograph Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 7 photographs ›

Summary

Billbergia macrocalyx is a plant species in the genus Billbergia. This species is endemic to Brazil.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Billbergia macrocalyx", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Billbergia

Billbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 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.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Northeast · 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).
Doubtfully present inBrazil Southeast · recorded by WCVP as doubtfully present: not part of the range records are tested against
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 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.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Billbergia 23 in the reference

Billbergia alfonsi-joannis Billbergia alfonsi-joannis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaBillbergia amoena Billbergia amoena Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozBillbergia brasiliensis Billbergia brasiliensis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf (Webseite) Billbergia decora Bromeliaceae Billbergia distachia Billbergia distachia Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaBillbergia euphemiae Billbergia euphemiae Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Pablo Cauã da Silva ToledoBillbergia horrida Billbergia horrida Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesBillbergia issingiana Billbergia issingiana Bromeliaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedBillbergia leptopoda Billbergia leptopoda Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Cliff from I now live in Arlington, VA… Billbergia magnifica Bromeliaceae Billbergia morelii Billbergia morelii Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos Otávio GussoniBillbergia nutans Billbergia nutans Queen's-tears Photo: CC0, author not stated all 24 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Billbergia quintusiana; Billbergia saundersiana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
Hook.
Native to
Brazil Northeast
Wild records
2 in range · 1 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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-212 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
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 3 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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