Authority:

Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

Family:

Bromeliaceae

Synonyms:

Hoplophytum angustifolium (Poepp. & Endl.) Beer, Hohenbergia angustifolia (Poepp. & Endl.) Baker, Aechmea cummingii Baker, Aechmea spicata Mart., Aechmea boliviana Rusby, Aechmea cylindrica Mez, Aechmea inconspicua Harms, Aechmea dryanderae Harms

Description:

Description - Plant flowering to 75 cm high. Leaves 10-15, 5-7 dm long; sheaths elliptic, 1 dm long, forming an ellipsoid tank, densely and finely brown-lepidote; blades ligulate, 3-6 cm wide, cinereous-lepidote, spinose-serrate, concolorous. Scape erect, white-floccuose becoming glabrous; scape-bracts elliptic, acute, serrate, red. Inflorescence dense or lax, bipinnate, cylindric, fertile throughout, 15-36 cm long; lowest primary bracts like the scape-bracts, exceeding the axillary spikes, the others abruptly reduced to about the size of the floral bracts; spikes spreading or reflexed, distichously 10-flowered, 20-55 mm long; rhachis undulate, excavated, compressed. Floral bracts spreading, cymbiform, broadly ovate with a straight mucro, 5 mm long, barely exceeding the ovary. Sepals asymmetric, mucronate, 4-5 mm long, free; petals linear, mucronate, 810 mm long, bearing 2 scales well above the base; ovary ellipsoid; placentae apical; ovules caudate.

Distribution:

Costa Rica South America| Puntarenas Costa Rica Central America| Alajuela Costa Rica Central America| Limón Costa Rica Central America| Heredia Costa Rica Central America| Panama Central America| Canal Zone Panamá Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Colombia South America| Santander Colombia South America| Antioquia Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Cundinamarca Colombia South America| Tolima Colombia South America| Caldas Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Cauca Colombia South America| Nariño Colombia South America| Meta Colombia South America| Venezuela South America| Barinas Venezuela South America| Bolívar Venezuela South America| Amazonas Venezuela South America| Ecuador South America| Manabí Ecuador South America| Guayas Ecuador South America| El Oro Ecuador South America| Imbabura Ecuador South America| Pichincha Ecuador South America| Los Ríos Ecuador South America|

Common Names:

Achupa, casha pinga