''Pseudaechmea'' is a
genus
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of the
botanical
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family
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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
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. The genus name is from the Greek ''pseudos'' (false) and the genus ''Aechmea''. The genus was established by
Lyman Smith and R.W. Read in 1982.
[Phytologia 52(1):49-60: (1982)] The sole species is ''Pseudaechmea ambigua'', treated as a synonym of ''Billbergia ambigua'' by
Plants of the World Online
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Bromelioideae
Bromeliaceae genera
Monotypic Poales genera