Taxon: Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. var. comosus

Summary

Genus:

Ananas

Family:

Bromeliaceae

Subfamily:

Bromelioideae

Nomen number:

463336

Verified:

06/15/2011 ARS Systematic Botanists.

Accessions:

329 (136 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System. (Map it)

Other conspecific taxa

Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. (1 active accession[s])
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. var. bracteatus (Lindl.) Coppens & F. Leal (10 active accession[s])
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. var. erectifolius (L. B. Sm.) Coppens & F. Leal (3 active accession[s])
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. var. microstachys (Mez) L. B. Sm. (8 active accession[s])
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. var. parguazensis (Camargo & L. B. Sm.) Coppens & F. Leal (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Bromelia comosa L.

Autonym(s)
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. f. comosus

Heterotypic Synonym(s)


Ananas duckei hort., nom. inval.
Ananas sativus Schult. & Schult. f.
Ananas sativus Schult. & Schult. f. var. duckei Camargo, nom. nud.
Bromelia ananas L.
Ananas ananas (L.) Voss, nom. inval.
Bromelia semiserrata Willd.
Ananas semiserratus (Willd.) Schult. f.
Ananassa semiserratus (Willd.) D. Dietr.
Ananas lucidus (Willd.) Schult. & Schult. f.
Bromelia lucida Willd.
Ananas sativus Schult. & Schult. f. var. lucidus (Aiton) Baker
Bromelia ananas L. var. lucida Aiton
Ananassa lucida Lindl. ex D. Dietr.
Ananas debilis Schult. & Schult. f.
Bromelia ananas L. subvar. variegata Nois.
Ananas porteanus Veitch ex Koch
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. f. sativus (Schult. & Schult. f.) Mez
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. f. lucidus (Willd.) Mez
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr. f. debilis (Schult. & Schult. f.) Mez
Ananas sativus Schult. & Schult. f. var. sativus
Ananas sativus Schult. & Schult. f. f. sativus
Bromelia ananas L. var. ananas

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Conservation Status

Reference(s)

Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge, G. & F. Leal. 2003. Morphology, anatomy and taxonomy. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 27. Note: CABI Publishing.
Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.

Common names

Language	Name	Alternate name	seq	Citation
English	pineapple		1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Chinese	feng li	凤梨	2
French	ananas		2
French	pain de sucre		2
German	Ananas		2
Indonesian (Java)	nanas		2
Malay	nanas		2
Portuguese	abacaxi		2
Portuguese	ananás		2
Portuguese (Brazil)	abacaxí-do-mato		2
Portuguese (Brazil)	ananás-selvagem		2
Portuguese (Brazil)	gravatá		2
Spanish	ananá		2
Spanish	piña		2
Spanish	piña de América		2
Spanish	piña tropical		2
Swedish	ananas		2

Distribution

order_code	Status	Continent	Subcontinent	Country	State	Note	Reference
2	Cultivated					also cult. elsewhere in tropics
2	Cultivated	Africa	East Tropical Africa	Kenya			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Africa	Southern Africa	Eswatini			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Africa	Southern Africa	South Africa			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Africa	West Tropical Africa	Côte D'Ivoire			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Africa	West Tropical Africa	Nigeria			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Africa	West-Central Tropical Africa	Cameroon			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	China	China			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Temperate	Eastern Asia	Taiwan			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indian Subcontinent	India			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Cambodia			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Indo-China	Thailand			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Indonesia			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Malaysia			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Asia-Tropical	Malesia	Philippines			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Australasia	Australia	Australia			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Northern America		Mexico			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Pacific	North-Central Pacific	United States	Hawaii		Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Brazil	Brazil			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Caribbean	Cuba			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Caribbean	Dominican Republic			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Caribbean	Martinique			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Caribbean	United States	Puerto Rico		Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Central America	Costa Rica			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Central America	Guatemala			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Central America	Honduras			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Northern South America	Venezuela			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Western South America	Colombia			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
2	Cultivated	Southern America	Western South America	Ecuador			Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
6	Other					probable origin Brazil, now perhaps only escaping from cult.	Smith, L. B. & R. J. Downs. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14(3):2061-63.

Cultivated

REGION:

Africa

EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya
WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Côte D'Ivoire, Nigeria
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Eswatini, South Africa

Asia-Temperate

CHINA: China
EASTERN ASIA: Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Thailand
MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

AUSTRALIA: Australia

Northern America

REGION: Mexico

Pacific

NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]

Southern America

CARIBBEAN: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Martinique, United States [Puerto Rico]
CENTRAL AMERICA: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras
NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Venezuela
BRAZIL: Brazil
WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia, Ecuador

Other (probable origin Brazil, now perhaps only escaping from cult.)

Reference(s)

Rohrbach, K. G. et al. 2003. History, distribution and world production. In: Bartholomew, D. P. et al., eds., The pineapple: botany, production and uses 1-12. Note: CABI Publishing.
Smith, L. B. & R. J. Downs. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14(3):2061-63.

Economic Uses

Usage	Type	Note	Reference
Food additives	tenderizer		Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2
Human food	beverage base		Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Human food	fruit		Rehm, S. & G. Espig. 1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics
Materials	fiber		Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2
Medicines	source of pharmaceutical agent	bromelain	Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
Medicines	source of pharmaceutical agent	bromelain	McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Medicines	source of pharmaceutical agent	bromelain	Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. 1988. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=463336. Accessed 12 May 2026.