Butcher & Gouda 2014a (Article) Ananas

Most Ananas are Cultivars

Author(s):—D. Butcher & E.J. Gouda

Publication:—Bromeliaceae, Journal of the Bromeliad Society of Queensland Inc. 48(1): 14-16. (2014)

Taxonomy:—Ananas Designation of a new lectotype for the Genus: Acanthostachys ananassoides Baker (invalid.) (p.16).—Ananas ananassoides var. nanus recognized as a variety of Ananas ananassoides as in Smith & Downs (p.16).—Ananas bracteatus Considered a man made cultivar (in the wild) by Amerindian selection (p.16).—Ananas bracteatus var. bracteatus Considered a man made cultivar (in the wild) by Amerindian selection (p.16).—Ananas bracteatus var. tricolor Considered a man made cultivar (p.16).—Ananas comosus Considered a man made cultivar (in the wild) by Amerindian selection (p.16).—Ananas comosus var. comosus Considered a man made cultivar (in the wild) by Amerindian selection (p.16).—Ananas comosus var. variegatus Considered a man made cultivar (p.16).—Ananas fritzmuelleri Considered a man made cultivar (in the wild) by Amerindian selection (p.16).—Ananas lucidus Considered a man made cultivar (in the wild) by Amerindian selection (p.16).—Ananas nanus recognized as a variety of Ananas ananassoides as in Smith & Downs (p.16).—Ananas sagenaria Recognized in the Genus Ananas (p.16).—Pseudananas sagenarius Recognized in the Genus Ananas (p.16).