Aechmea eurycorymbus Harms
-
Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)
-
Family
Bromeliaceae
-
Scientific Name
-
Type
Type. Werdermann 2931 (holotype, B; photo B 1192/32), Serra Negra east of Floresta, Pernambuco, Brazil, Mar 1932.
-
Description
Description - Plant flowering to 2 m high. Leaves 9-12 dm long; sheaths elliptic, 2 dm long, entire, densely and finely castaneous-lepidote; blades ligulate, acuminate to a pungent spine, 5-7 cm wide at base, laxly spinose-serrate, covered with pale appressed scales, becoming glabrous above. Scape stout, erect; scape-bracts lanceolate, acuminate, pungent, 4-13 cm long. Inflorescence amply 3-4-pinnate, pyramidal, glabrous or subglabrous; branches rather elongate, angled; spikes minute, few-flowered; rhachis flexuous. Floral bracts ovate, attenuate to a pungent spine, 10-12 mm long, exceeding the ovary, rigid, entire, nerved. Sepals free, asymmetric, mucronate, nearly 15 mm long, rigid; petals narrowly lanceolate, acute, nearly 2 cm long, dark yellow-green, bearing 2 scales at base; stamens barely included, anthers 6 mm long; ovary ellipsoid, 6 mm long, glabrous, epigynous tube short.
-
Distribution
Terrestrial and epiphytic, 300-525 m alt, northeastern Brazil.
Brazil South America| Paraíba Brazil South America| Pernambuco Brazil South America|