Floral inventory of my apartment

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]

2 thoughts on “Floral inventory of my apartment

  1. It is a fair number of plants. Someday I need a greenhouse. 🙂

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