15.2

genus Werauhia J.R.Grant

(subtrib. Cipuropsidinae)

Publ: Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenw. 91: 28 (1995)

Type: T.: Tillandsia gladioliflora WENDLAND, Hamburger Garten-Blumenzeitung 19: 31, 1863. TYPE: Costa Rica. WENDLAND in Herrenhausen Hortus s.n. (holotype, HBG not seen).

Number of species: 100
   and 1 infraspecific taxa
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Genus Notes:

Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt 91: 28. 1995.
Type Tillandsia gladioliflora H. Wendl., Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 19: 31. 1863. Werauhia gladioliflora (H. Wendl.) J.R. Grant, Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt 91: 31. 1995. Currently recognized in the subfam. Tillandsioideae. See Grant (in Bromélia 4: 28-39. 1997), and Luther (in Selbyana 18: 128-133. 1997.) Named in honor of German botanist Prof. Dr. Werner Rauh (1912- ), Institut für Systematische Botanik und Pflanzengeographie, Universität Heidelberg, Germany.

Rauh has published many articles on bromeliads in his series ‘Bromelienstudien, Neue und wenig bekannte Arten aus Peru und anderen Ländern’ [Bromeliad studies, new and little known species from Peru and other countries] published in ‘Trop. Subtrop. Pflanzenwelt’ [Tropical and Subtropical Plant World]. Three of his important bromeliad books are: ‘Bromelien für Zimmer und Gewächshaus. Band 1: Die Tillandsioideen’ (1970) [Bromeliads for Room and Greenhouse. Vol. 1: The Tillandsioideae], ‘Bromelien für Zimmer und Gewächshaus. Band 2: Vol. 2 Bromelioideen und Pitcairnioideen’ (1973) [Bromeliads for Room and Greenhouse. Vol. 2 Bromelioideae and Pitcairnioideae], and ‘Bromelien. Tillandsien und andere kulturwurdige Bromelien’ (1990) [Bromeliads. Tillandsias and other bromeliads worthy of cultivation.]
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)