 Bromeliaceae

The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) is a family of monocot flowering plants of 75 genera and around 3590 known species native mainly to the tropical Americas, with a few species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, "Pitcairnia feliciana".It is among the basal families within the Poales and is the only family within the order that has septal nectaries and inferior ovaries.