Bromelia occurs as genus of tropical American plants characterized by flowers with the deeply cleft calyx, of the personal Bromeliaceae, named fallowing a Swedish botanist Olaf Bromelius (died 1705). It includes a as a consequence species:

Bromelia alsodes Bromelia alta Bromelia antiacantha Bromelia arenaria Bromelia balansae Bromelia chrysantha Bromelia flemingii Bromelia goeldiana Bromelia goyazensis Bromelia hieronymii Bromelia horstii Bromelia humilis Bromelia karatas Bromelia macedoi Bromelia palmeri Bromelia pinguin Bromelia scarlatina Bromelia serra Bromelia sylvicola

A immune fiber obtained from B. miguel jose serra & B. hieronymi, each called chaguar, is an essential component of the economy of the Wichí tribe in the semi-arid Gran Chaco region of Argentina.

Sources
[http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=bromeliad Bromeliad] on Merriam-Webster On the net Dictionary [http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bromelia WordNet Search] [http://fcbs.org/pictures/Bromelia.htm List of Species]