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	Brocchinia reducta -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brocchinia reducta is one of few (additional info and facts about carnivorous) carnivorous (additional info and facts about bromeliads) bromeliads.
		reducta is not actually carnivorous in the sense of other such plants because it does not produce (An enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones) pepsin or any other digestive (Any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis) proteases.
		However, ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants) bacteria and (The taxonomic kingdom of lower plants) fungi digest the trapped insects, and the leaves are capable of absorbing the resulting nutrients.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brocchinia_reducta.htm (240 words)

	Brocchinia reducta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brocchinia reducta is one of few carnivorous bromeliads.
		reducta is not actually carnivorous in the sense of other such plants because it does not produce pepsin or any other digestive proteases.
		Givnish, T.J., Burkhardt, E.L., Happel, R.E. and Weintraub, J.D. Carnivory in the bromeliad Brocchinia reducta, with a cost/benefit model for the general restriction of carnivorous plants to sunny, moist, nutrient-poor habitats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brocchinia_reducta (203 words)

	The Carnivorous Plant FAQ: Bromeliads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Insects are caught in its leaf axils and supposedly digested.
		Brocchinia contains a few species which are sometimes included in the list of carnivores (B.
		Perhaps the most entertaining fact about these plants is that some marvelous epiphytic Utricularia have become adapted to living in the urns and leaf axils of Brocchinia, feasting upon those insects that have learned to survive the digestive action of their peculiar habitats.
	www.sarracenia.com /faq/faq5640.html (155 words)

	Brocchina
		Brocchinia reducta is a Guayana Highland endemic recently discovered to be carnivorous.
		Brocchinia acuminata is another species from the Guayana Highlands, but this one has different method of nutrient uptake.
		Brocchinia micrantha is yet another species of Brocchinia, but this one is a gigantic, monocarpic species that can impound several liters of rainwater in its "tank".
	botit.botany.wisc.edu /courses/tour/Roomfive-Br.html (160 words)

	Bromeliad Biota - Carniverous Bromeliads
		The second plant to be noticed was Brocchinia reducta.
		It is terrestrial rather than epiphytic, grows in nutrient-poor soils in southern Venezuela and Guyana, is seldom shaded by other vegetation, and its tanks often contain dead insects, such as ants (5).
		The highly acid water in its tank (5) may help the action of proteases in digesting insect bodies (2).
	bromeliadbiota.ifas.ufl.edu /carnbr.htm (612 words)

	VCPS - Descriptions
		Brocchinia reducta, a native to Venezuela and Guyana in South America was the first of the Bromeliads in which carnivory has been confirmed.
		Brocchinia reducta is a terrestrial plant 20 to 45 cm tall with bright yellow-green leaves forming a vertical cylinder.
		reducta fulfils the two requirements necessary to be classified as carnivorous.
	www.vcps.au.com /contents/descriptions.htm (12128 words)

	Bromeliaceae
		Like the Asian Nepenthes bicalcarata, Brocchinia reducta may be both an ant-house plant and a carrnivore (or a sub-carnivore since it traps insects but does not produce digestive enzymes).
		Insects which drown are broken down by bacterial decomposition, and the released nutrients are absorbed by trichomes on the leaf (Givnish et al., 1984, 1997).
		Young Brocchinia reducta plants produce a nectar-like fragrance which may also serve as an attractant, but they do not reward the ants with any real nectar (Gonzalez et al., 1991).
	home.nc.rr.com /myrmecophyte/bromeliad.html (452 words)

	Brocchinia reducta - Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Absorptive Trichomes in Brocchinia reducta (Bromeliaceae) and Their Evolutionary and Systematic Significance.
		Brocchinia reducta je jedním ze několika málo druhů čeledi bromeliovitých (Bromeliaceae), u kterého byla popsána a prokázána masožravost.
		Structure and function of a specialized cell well in the trichomes of the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta.
	ezindexes.com /ezid/brocchinia-reducta.htm (291 words)

	pitcher plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This species has a highly-developed but very small pitcher (a few centimeters at most) and is restricted to the southeast corner of Australia.
		A few species of bromeliads Bromeliaceae, such as Brocchinia reducta and Catopsis berteroniana are known or suspected to be carnivorous.
		Bromeliads are monocots, and given that they all naturally collect water where their leaves meet each other, and many species are epiphytic and collect detritus (the tank bromeliads), it is not surprising that a few should have developed the habit a bit further into carnivory by adding wax and downward-pointing hairs.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Pitcher_plant (337 words)

	Steve's place - Murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These plants have just used the urn that is a fundamental part of the structure of a bromeliad for a new purpose, and built on it by the production of wax, enzymes and the other paraphernalia of carnivory.
		Brocchinia reducta, one of the very few carnivorous pineapples.
		Givnish, T. J., Burkhardt, E. L., Happel, R. and Weintraub, J. Carnivory in the bromeliad Brocchinia reducta, with a cost-benefit model for the general restriction of carnivorous plants to sunny, moist, nutrient-poor habitats.
	www.steve.gb.com /vegetable_empire/murder.html (4228 words)

	"Coastal Carnivores" Carnivorous Plants: Cultivation Tips: Bromeliads
		While there are hundreds of genera and species of bromeliads, only two are carnivorous, Catopsis berteronianaand Brocchinia reducta.
		While other bromeliads may end up with the occasional drowned insect within their water wells, it is only these two species that actually have absorptive glands to derive nutrients from these drowned insects.
		Both species are epiphytes, as are all bromeliads, with Brocchinia reductaliving side by side with the Heliamphoraon the highland tepuis.
	www.geocities.com /cteichreb/Bromeliads.html (297 words)

	Natural History: Falls from paradise: Guyana's Kaieteur falls is a remote Yet accessible wilderness - This Land
		A number of terrestrial orchids live on the savanna, but the most eye-catching plant is Brocchinia micrantha, a thick-stalked terrestrial bromeliad that can grow twelve feet high.
		Savanna vegetation, in addition to the bromeliad Brocchinia micrantha and the bladderwort Utricularia humboldtii, includes such terrestrial orchids as the pale green and purple Catasetum discolor and the large pink Sobralia liliastrum.
		Boggy areas are often dominated by Brocchinia reducta, a cousin of B. micrantha.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_10_110/ai_80774382 (1432 words)

	CP Mailing List Archives for 1998: Re: Brocchinia reducta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 18:39:36 +0000 From: jpm To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: Subject: Re: Brocchinia reducta
		My name is Jonathan Mitchell; I have a B. reducta plant that I have had
		I also think it is important to keep the soil very dry.
	www.omnisterra.com /botany/cp/list/cp98all.d/0421.htm (174 words)

	CarnivorasLA.org - Carnivorous plants of Latinamerica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is even one species which grows as aquatic but only in the water accumulated at the base of the leaves of another plant, and this other plant is also carnivorous or at least sub-carnivorous (Utricularia humboldtii grows in the water filled leaf axils of bromeliads of the genus Brocchinia).
		Brocchinia reducta, can only do some of these things needing the extra help of bacteria for digestion and for this reason are considered sub-carnivorous plants.
		For a comprehensive introduction to carnivorous plants and everything related with them, you can read the Carnivorous Plants FAQ, a very complete document, courtesy of the International Carnivorous Plant Society.
	www.carnivorasla.org /new/en/index.php (189 words)

	Newt and Salamander Discussion Forum @ Caudata.org: Bugs in the vivarium
		When they die, their decomposition adds to the nutrition for the Bromeliads.
		There are even a few select Bromeliads that actually trap insects (Catopsis berteroniana and Brocchinia reducta)for protein.
		So unless you've got something that appears to be an infestation of sorts damaging your plants, it doesn't sound like the presence of the insects is a problem.
	www.caudata.org /forum/messages/7618/11792.html?1076422350 (397 words)

	PlantFiles: Detailed information on (Brocchinia reducta)
		On Aug 28, 2004, smiln32 from Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) wrote:
		The leaves surrounding the cup of B. reducta are coated with loose, waxy scales.
		It has been argued that B. reducta is not actually carnivorous in the sense of other such plants, because it does not produce pepsin or any other digestive proteases.
	davesgarden.com /pf/go/73030 (282 words)

	Introduction to the Kaieteur Falls National Park Plant Checklist
		The large bromeliad, Brocchinia micrantha, takes advantage of humus caught in larger cracks and crevice and can grow up to 3-3.5 meters in height.
		A smaller species of bromeliad, Brocchinia reducta, which grows on the grass savanna and trees, was first collected and described from Kaieteur Falls.
		This species was thought to be endemic to the area until it was later collected in Venezuela (Soderstrom, 1963).
	www.mnh.si.edu /biodiversity/bdg/kaieteur/intro1.html (2550 words)

	CarnivorasLA.org - Drosera sessilifolia St.Hil. Flower Saga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of my friends then had to go home, but two of us headed further north through the state of Roraima to southern Venezuela, where we found so many CP species (around 30) that I won’t even list them.
		A few highlights were Heliamphora heterodoxa, Genlisea guianensis, Brocchinia reducta, Catopsis berteroniana, and six species of Drosera.
		And we didn’t even climb any of the famous tepuys, everything was found in the savanna-like plains of the Gran Sabana, between 1100 and 1450m in altitude.
	www.carnivorasla.org /new/en/fieldtrip/D.sessilifolia.html (1659 words)

	T. Page Owen, Jr., Ph.D. - Curriculum Vitae
		Dispersed lignin in tracheary elements treated with cellulose synthesis inhibitors provides evidence that molecules of the secondary cell wall mediate wall patterning.
		Structure and function of a specialized cell wall in the trichomes of the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta.
		Apoplastic and ultrastructural characterizations of the trichomes of the carnivorous bromeliad Brocchinia reducta.
	www.lifeedu.org /owencv.htm (423 words)

	CP Mailing List Archives for 1997: My Brocchinia reducta's hist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CP Mailing List Archives for 1997: My Brocchinia reducta's hist
		Date: Sat, 14 Jun 97 13:14:19 GMT From: saharris@iafrica.com (Eric Green) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: Subject: My Brocchinia reducta's history
		I was given 2 plants by Andreas Wistuba (THANKS Andreas) shortly after he
	www.omnisterra.com /botany/cp/list/cp97all.d/2333.htm (392 words)

	Poales
		For carnivory in Brocchinia reducta, see Givnish et al.
		The flowers have a calyx and corolla, and the latter, although free, is erect and forms a tube.
		Stem-group Bromeliaceae are dated to ca 112 mybp, divergence within the crown group to ca 96 mybp (Janssen and Bremer 2004: Brocchinia not included).
	www.mobot.org /MOBOT/research/APWeb/orders/poalesweb.htm (7893 words)

	CP Mailing List Archives for 1998: Brocchinia reducta
		Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:48:33 +0200 From: "Erik van Zuilekom" <9623426@rgo.sun.ac.za> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: Subject: Brocchinia reducta
		> Charles here in Va. I have some concerns growing Brocchinia reducta
		I so far have not grown either Nepenthes or Brocchinia in a
	www.omnisterra.com /botany/cp/list/cp98all.d/0828.htm (356 words)

	Where can I get Brocchinia reducta ? - Bromeliad Forum - GardenWeb
		So that's the reason why I'm looking for this plant.
		These grow in habitat on very tall mountains that get quite cool at night, and are unlikely to tolerate your hot day/hot night conditions of summer.
		It will grow OK for you, not all brocchinias are high land plants.
	forums.gardenweb.com /forums/load/bromeliad/msg1207522118785.html?/... (329 words)

	BACPS Newsletter, Fall 2004
		Nepenthes alata brought in by John, 6 Drosera brought in by Melissa Mork
		Brocchinia reducta and a Stanhopea orchid, known for its strong perfume and elaborate pollination lure, were brought in by Sheryl Elwood.
		Pinguicula moranensis, Drosera nitidula hybrid, and a jewel orchid were displayed by Stephen Davis.
	www.bacps.org /2004Fall.html (3953 words)

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