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Quesnelia marmorata; photograph (c) Pedro Alvaro Neves, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Pedro Alvaro Neves, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-01-01

Quesnelia marmorata (Lem.) Read

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Bromeliaceae · Brazil South

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Summary

Quesnelia marmorata is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, endemic to the Atlantic Forest ecoregion of southeastern Brazil. It was first described by Charles Antoine Lemaire in 1855 as Billbergia marmorata.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Quesnelia marmorata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeBrazil South · 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“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 51 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Jefferson Ferreira, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Fabricio Carvalho da Silva, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5).

Other Quesnelia 9 in the reference

Quesnelia arvensis Quesnelia arvensis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozQuesnelia augustocoburgi Quesnelia augustocoburgi Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesQuesnelia edmundoi Quesnelia edmundoi Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo Luiz Quesnelia humilis Bromeliaceae Quesnelia lateralis Quesnelia lateralis Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Victor Farjalla PontesQuesnelia liboniana Quesnelia liboniana Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Felipe BryantQuesnelia quesneliana Quesnelia quesneliana Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozQuesnelia seideliana Quesnelia seideliana Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Timm StoltenQuesnelia testudo Quesnelia testudo Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Carlos Alexandre Mattos Raposo

Names & registers

Also known as Aechmea marmorata; Billbergia marmorata; Quesnelia effusa. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
(Lem.) Read
Native to
Brazil South
Wild records
none in range · 51 outside it

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; 3 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 2 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22none 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
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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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