''Greigia'' is a

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of plants in the

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Bromeliaceae The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, ...

, subfamily

Bromelioideae Bromelioideae is a subfamily of the bromeliads (Bromeliaceae). This subfamily is the most diverse in the family, represented by the greatest number of genera with about 40. Most of the plants in this group are epiphytes, though some have evolved ...

. It is native to

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from

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/ref> The genus is named in honour of Major General Samuel Alexjewitsch Greig, president of the Russian Horticultural Society in 1865. ''Greigias'' are unique among bromeliads in that they do not die after flowering. Instead, they continue to bloom every year from the same rosette.V. Padilla ''Bromeliads'' (1977), pp.48 Crown Publishers, Inc

Species

* '' Greigia acebeyi'' B.Will, T.Krömer, M.Kessler, Karger & H.Luther - Bolivia * '' Greigia alborosea'' (Grisebach) Mez - Venezuela * '' Greigia aristeguietae'' L.B. Smith - Venezuela * '' Greigia atrobrunnea'' H. Luther - Ecuador * '' Greigia atrocastanea'' H. Luther - Bolivia * '' Greigia berteroi'' Skottsberg - Juan Fernández Islands * '' Greigia cochabambae'' H. Luther - Bolivia * '' Greigia collina'' L.B. Smith - Cundinamarca * '' Greigia columbiana'' L.B. Smith - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela * '' Greigia danielii'' L.B. Smith - Colombia, Bolivia * '' Greigia exserta'' L.B. Smith - Colombia * '' Greigia kessleri'' H. Luther - Bolivia * '' Greigia landbeckii'' (Lechler ex Philippi) Philippi - Chile * '' Greigia leymebambana'' H. Luther - Peru * '' Greigia macbrideana'' L.B. Smith - Peru * '' Greigia marioi'' B.Will, T.Krömer, M.Kessler, Karger & H.Luther - Bolivia * '' Greigia membranacea'' B.Will, T.Krömer, M.Kessler, Karger & H.Luther - Bolivia * '' Greigia mulfordii'' L.B. Smith - Colombia, Ecuador * '' Greigia nubigena'' L.B. Smith - Colombia * '' Greigia oaxacana'' L.B. Smith - Oaxaca, Chiapas * '' Greigia ocellata'' L.B. Smith & Steyermark - Venezuela * '' Greigia pearcei'' Mez - Chile * '' Greigia racinae'' L.B. Smith - Colombia * '' Greigia raporum'' H. Luther - Peru * '' Greigia rohwederi'' L.B. Smith, O. Rohweder - El Salvador, Honduras * '' Greigia sanctae-martae'' L.B. Smith - Colombia * '' Greigia sodiroana'' Mez - Ecuador * '' Greigia sphacelata'' (Ruiz & Pavón) Regel - Chile * '' Greigia stenolepis'' L.B. Smith - Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia * '' Greigia steyermarkii'' L.B. Smith - Guatemala, Honduras * '' Greigia sylvicola'' Standley - Costa Rica, Panama * '' Greigia tillettii'' L.B. Smith & R.W. Read - Venezuela * '' Greigia van-hyningii'' L.B. Smith - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas * '' Greigia vilcabambae'' H. Luther - Peru * '' Greigia vulcanica'' André - Colombia, Ecuador

References

External links

BSI Genera Gallery
photos * http://fcbs.org/pictures/Greigia.htm {{Taxonbar, from=Q140808 Bromeliaceae genera