Pitcairnia subg. Pepinia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = 20111226 Pepinia caricifolia.jpg |image_caption = ''Pitcairnia caricifolia'' |taxon = Pitcairnia subg. Pepinia |authority = (Brongn. ex André) Baker |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text. |synonyms = ''Pepinia'' Brongn. ex André }}

'''''Pitcairnia'' subg. ''Pepinia''''' is a subgenus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae. It has at times been treated as the separate genus '''''Pepinia''''', but is now included again in the genus ''Pitcairnia''. The name is for Pierre Denis Pépin, French member of the Imperial and Central Society of Agriculture (c.1802-1876).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bsi.org/brom_info/genera.html |title=BSI - Bromeliad Info - Genera Etymology |access-date=2009-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221143933/http://www.bsi.org/brom_info/genera.html |archive-date=2019-02-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Taxonomy== ''Pepinia'' was established as a genus in 1870 by Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart in a publication by Édouard André.<ref name=IPNI_4985-1>{{citation |title=''Pepinia'' Brongn. ex André |work=The International Plant Names Index |url=https://www.ipni.org/n/4985-1 |access-date=2022-11-02 }}</ref> ''Pepinia'' was reduced to a subgenus of ''Pitcairnia'' in 1881 by John Gilbert Baker,<ref name=EOB>{{citation |mode=cs2 |last1=Gouda |first1=E.J. |last2=Butcher |first2=D. |last3=Gouda |first3=C.S. |date=2022 |title=''Pepinia'' (subgen. of ''Pitcairnia'') (Brongniart ex André) Baker |website=Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads |publisher=Utrecht University Botanic Gardens |url=https://bromeliad.nl/species/Pepinia/(subgen./of/Pitcairnia) |access-date=2022-11-02}}</ref> but elevated again to a genus in 1988, largely on the basis of the morphology of its seeds.<ref name=VaraGilm88>{{Citation |last1=Varadarajan |first1=G.S. |last2=Gilmartin |first2=A.J. |date=1988 |title=Taxonomic Realignments within the Subfamily Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae) |journal=Systematic Botany |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=294–299 |doi=10.2307/2419108 |jstor=2419108 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref> The use of morphological characters to differentiate ''Pepinia'' from ''Pitcairnia'' was rejected in 1999;<ref name=TaylRobiRobi99>{{Citation |last1=Taylor |first1=David C. |last2=Robinson |first2=Harold |last3=Robinson |first3=H.E. |date=1999 |title=A rejection of ''Pepinia'' (Bromeliaceae: Pitcairnioideae) and taxonomic revisions |journal=Harvard Papers in Botany |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=203–218 |jstor=41761301 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref> a view later confirmed by multiple molecular studies.<ref name=SchuKrapWagnWeis16>{{Citation |last1=Schütz |first1=Nicole |last2=Krapp |first2=Florian |last3=Wagner |first3=Natascha |last4=Weising |first4=Kurt |date=2016 |title=Phylogenetics of Pitcairnioideae s.s. (Bromeliaceae): evidence from nuclear and plastid DNA sequence data |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=181 |issue=3 |pages=323–342 |doi=10.1111/boj.12403 |name-list-style=amp |doi-access=free }}</ref> ===Selected species=== Species that have been placed in ''Pepinia'' and are now placed in ''Pitcairnia'' subg. ''Pepinia'' include: *''Pepinia agavifolia'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia agavifolia'' *''Pepinia alborubra'' (Baker) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia alborubra'' *''Pepinia alexanderi'' H.Luther = ''Pitcairnia alexanderi'' *''Pepinia amblyosperma'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia amblyosperma'' *''Pepinia aphelandriflora'' (Lemaire) André = ''Pitcairnia aphelandriflora'' *''Pepinia armata'' (Maury) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia armata'' *''Pepinia beachiae'' (J. Utley & Burt-Utley) H.Luther = ''Pitcairnia beachiae'' *''Pepinia bulbosa'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia bulbosa'' *''Pepinia caricifolia'' (Martius ex Schultes f.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia caricifolia'' *''Pepinia carnososepala'' (Rauh & E. Gross) H.Luther = ''Pitcairnia carnososepala'' *''Pepinia corallina'' (Linden & André) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia corallina'' *''Pepinia ctenophylla'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia ctenophylla'' *''Pepinia cuatrecasasiana'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia cuatrecasasiana'' *''Pepinia epiphytica'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia epiphytica'' *''Pepinia filispina'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia filispina'' *''Pepinia fulgens'' H.Luther = ''Pitcairnia harrylutheri'' *''Pepinia harlingii'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia harlingii'' *''Pepinia hooveri'' H.Luther = ''Pitcairnia hooveri'' *''Pepinia juncoides'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia juncoides'' *''Pepinia kunhardtiana'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia kunhardtiana'' *''Pepinia leopoldii'' W.Till & S.Till = ''Pitcairnia leopoldii'' *''Pepinia maguirei'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia maguirei'' *''Pepinia patentiflora'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia patentiflora'' *''Pepinia pruinosa'' Kunth = ''Pitcairnia pruinosa'' *''Pepinia punicea'' (Scheidweiler) Brongniart ex André = ''Pitcairnia punicea'' *''Pepinia rubiginosa'' (Baker) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia rubiginosa'' *''Pepinia sanguinea'' H.Luther = ''Pitcairnia sanguinea'' *''Pepinia turbinella'' (L.B.Sm.) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia turbinella'' *''Pepinia uaupensis'' (Baker) G.S.Varad. & Gilmartin = ''Pitcairnia uaupensis'' *''Pepinia verrucosa'' E. Gross = ''Pitcairnia elvirae''

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==External links== *[http://www.bsi.org/brom_info/gallery/Pepinia/ BSI Genera Gallery] photos

Category:Pitcairnia Category:Plant subgenera