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Cryptanthus bivittatus (Hook.) Regel

Bromeliaceae · Brazil Northeast

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Summary

Cryptanthus bivittatus, (commonly known as Earth star) is a small, terrestrial species of plant in the family Bromeliaceae. Reaching a height of only 6 - 8 inches and preferring moderate or diffuse light, it is commonly used in terrariums and novelty planters.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cryptanthus bivittatus", 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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Northeast · introduced: Mexico Central · 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).
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.

Photographs

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Photographs: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Salix, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Mokkie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Cryptanthus 9 in the reference

Cryptanthus acaulis Cryptanthus acaulis Starfishplant Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesCryptanthus bahianus Cryptanthus bahianus Bromeliaceae Photo: Public domain, KareljCryptanthus beuckeri Cryptanthus beuckeri Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, SalixCryptanthus bromelioides Cryptanthus bromelioides Rainbow star Photo: CC BY, User:BotBlnCryptanthus lacerdae Cryptanthus lacerdae Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Salix Cryptanthus marginatus Bromeliaceae Cryptanthus maritimus Bromeliaceae Cryptanthus praetextus Bromeliaceae Cryptanthus zonatus Cryptanthus zonatus Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Camila Diaz

Names & registers

Also known as Billbergia bivittata; Cryptanthus atropurpureus; Cryptanthus bivittatus subsp. atropurpureus; Cryptanthus bivittatus subsp. luddemannii; Cryptanthus bivittatus subsp. moensis and 9 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
(Hook.) Regel
Native to
Brazil Northeast
Wild records
1 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 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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