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Paepalanthus bromelioides is a small perennial from the Eriocaulaceae (pipewort) family, native to the Cerrado of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is grown as a curiosity rather than a common houseplant, and it needs bright light, good drainage and dry-season conditions similar to its native habitat.
Paepalanthus bromelioides is a species in the flowering plant family Eriocaulaceae. It is a perennial native to Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil.
Family Eriocaulaceae is placed in the Poales, close to the Bromeliaceae, whose morphology this genus shares. Paepalanthus bromelioides is native to Cerrado. There is some speculation that the occasional insects trapped in the urn of this plant are evidence of its being a carnivorous plant or protocarnivorous, possible deriving nutrients from termite mounds that termites frequently make in the plants' roots.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Paepalanthus bromelioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
