Billbergia EXCLUDED TAXA

Names:

• Billbergia lansbergiana
• Billbergia angustifolia C.Koch (1866)
• Billbergia saundersiana R.Hogg (1869)
• Billbergia x joliboisii Van Geert (1882)
• Billbergia x breauteana André (1884)
• Billbergia pirlotiana hort. (1887)
• Billbergia x blireiana André (1889)
• Billbergia x leopoldi (1894)
• Billbergia buchholtzii Mez (1919)
• Billbergia pyramidalis var. striata M.B.Foster (1954)

Billbergia x leopoldi

Status: Excluded

Publ: Cat. Brom. Hort. Lugd. Bat. 11. (1894)

Description: click here.

Taxonomic Change:

• Man made hybrid: B. decora x Saundersii. Leaves just as in B. saundersii coloured and in shape; flowers conspicuously pedicellate; revealing petals a very beautiful violet: yet clearly from B. decora: inflorescence pendulous; petals revolute; leaves undulate – B. Leopoldi Cat. Brom. Lugd. –Bat. 1894, p. 11, non Morr. (V. v. in hort. Lugd. –Bat.)