Aechmea hoppii (Harms) L.B.Sm.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Hopp 1016 (holotype, B; photo B 1194/24), Archidona, Napo, Ecuador, Jan 1931.
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Synonyms
Streptocalyx hoppii Harms
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Description
Description - Plant 4-6 dm high. Leaves rosulate, 6-10 dm long, inconspicuously brown-lepidote; sheaths elliptic, 15 cm long, dark castaneous basally, blades linear, acuminate into a pungent subulate cusp, 3-4 cm wide, concolorous, sublaxly serrulate. Scape straight; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, broadly ovate with narrowly triangular blades, densely serrate. Inflorescence bipinnate, cylindric, 12-30 cm long, subglabrous; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but with short blades or merely apiculate, exceeding the spikes, subchartaceous; spikes densely few-flowered. Floral bracts ample, equaling the sepals, densely spinose-serrate; flowers sessile. Sepals broadly obovate, apiculate, 13-15 mm long, serrulate, free; petals 17-20 mm long, obtuse, bearing 2 long obtuse scales at base; ovary 6-8 mm long, epigynous tube crateriform, very short, placentae apical; ovules obtuse.
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Distribution
Terrestrial in field and epiphytic in forest, 130-2225 m alt, Colombia to Peru.
Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Caquetá Colombia South America| Ecuador South America| Napo Ecuador South America| Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America|