An inventory of the plants presently living in my apartment. Some identifications are very approximate, as a number of these were acquired through greenhouses that don’t label plants and so forth… and I don’t exactly have, say, a key to all the species of Aechmea, Neoregelia, all the myriad cultivated varieties in genera like Saintpaulia, etc. Listed in alphabetical order by family, genus, then species.
Asteraceae:
Senecio articulatus
Senecio stapeliiformis
Bromeliaceae (I have a particular fondness for terrestrial bromeliads, as you may notice):
Acanthostachys pitcairnoides
Acanthostachys strobilacea
Aechmea sp. (not one of the obnoxious cultivars; alas, I’ve lost the tag indicating which species)
Billbergia chiapensis
Billbergia zebrina (thought this thing was dead for a good while!)
Deuterocohnia brevifolia
Dyckia platyphylla
Fosterella kroemeri (or perhaps F. windischii; I need to wait for flowers to tell; sold to me as Fosterella albicans)
Fosterella latifolia (sold as Fosterella villosula; Fosterella latifolia is placed in synonymy of Fosterella penduliflora in a revision by Jule Peters but it looks different so, what the hell, I’ll list it separately)
Fosterella penduliflora (I’ve had these for something like 15 years; they reseed readily and are hard to kill)
Fosterella petiolata (I think)
Fosterella spectabilis
Neoregelia sp. (not one of the obnoxious cultivars; alas, I’ve lost the tag indicating which species)
Orthophytum saxicola
Pitcairnia cf. punicea
Cactaceae (I don’t particularly like cacti, but somehow I end up with them anyways!):
x Disophyllum, unknown cultivar
Echinops, unknown hybrid
Mammillaria elongata
Mammillaria hernandesi
Rhipsalis baccifera
Rhipsalis paradoxa
Schlumbergera, unknown cultivar (white flowers)
Stenocactus zacatecasensis
Commelinaceae:
Tradescantia spathacea
Crassulaceae:
Sedum wrightii
Euphorbiaceae:
Euphorbia horrida
Euphorbia obesa (although it doesn’t look particularly happy…)
Gesneriaceae:
Saintpaulia, unknown cultivar (single purple flowers)
Hypnaceae:
Hypnum sp.
Isoëtaceae:
Isoëtes louisianensis
Isoëtes melanopoda
Marchantiaceae:
Marchantia polymorpha
Marsileaceae:
Marsilea vestita
Moraceae:
Dorstenia foetida
Ficus sansibarica
mosses (unknown family):
several species that I have not identified
Ophioglossaceae:
Botrychium lunarioides
Ophioglossum crotalophoroides
Polypodiaceae:
Davallia sp.
Polytrichaceae:
Atrichum sp.
Polytrichum sp.
Porellaceae:
Porella sp.
Psilotaceae:
Psilotum nudum
Pteridaceae:
Astrolepis sinuata (it volunteered in a terrarium, of all things)
Astrolepis windhamii
Bommeria hispida
Cheilanthes eatonii
Cheilanthes fendleri
Cheilanthes lindheimeri
Cheilanthes yavapensis
Pellaea atropurpurea
Pellaea gastonyi
Pellaea truncata
Pellaea wrightiana
Pteris cretica
Selaginellaceae:
Selaginella erythropoda
Selaginella moellendorfii
Selaginella rupincola
Sphagnaceae:
Sphagnum sp. (not really sure why I bought this… online biological supply stores are dangerous)
Vitaceae:
Cissus quadrangularis
Welwitschiaceae:
Welwitschia mirabilis
Xanthorrhoeaceae:
Haworthia herbacea
[updated 30 Jan 2014]
Wow! Very impressive. (And I assume that doesn’t even include the mosses inside the swamp cooler. 🙂
It is a fair number of plants. Someday I need a greenhouse. 🙂