Several years ago the idea was born to start a Bromeliad CD project, combining as much information as possible about all existing natural Bromeliad species and names. It had to include all Bromeliad names, correct ones as well as synonyms, publication information, other literature references, distribution & habitat information, descriptions and even more important loads of pictures. We did realize
that this was a monster project and we can not do it on our own. Especially we need picture donors to get most of the species illustrated. Also data collecting and maintenance is a huge project and in the end we would like to add descriptions and keys too. The project started with a collaboration of three persons: Hugo Claessen, Kees and Eric Gouda. For literature references Leo Dijkgraaf has been asked to share his affords in his search for Bromeliad literature and he was willing to do so. This first version October 2005 was a nice begin, but far from complete and we seek for collaboration with other Bromeliad enthusiasts and picture donors. Now several years later we have added loads of information and pictures and we have major versien 3 that is also available online (with restricted image size and without descriptions for non members).
