Aechmea fendleri André ex Mez
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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. Fendler 2454 (holotype, K; photo K 7447; isotype, GH), near Colonia Tovar, Venezuela, 1856-57.
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Synonyms
Aechmea paniculigera (Sw.) Griseb., Aechmea fendleri André ex Mez, Aechmea porteoides Britton
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Description
Description - Leaves rosulate, 9 dm long; sheaths subovate, subdensely brown-lepidote; blades linear, abruptly acute and sometimes ending in a soft spine, 55 mm wide, chartaceous, serrate toward base with brown spreading spines 2 mm long and toward apex with smaller antrorse ones, glabrous above, brown-lepidote beneath. Scape decurved; scape-bracts soon deciduous. Inflorescence paniculate, cylindric, interrupted, 2-7 dm long, the terminal spike 15 cm long, simple, pale-lepidote; primary bracts small and inconspicuous; branches subfasciculate, wholly fertile, laxly 2-4-flowered, 2-6 cm long; rhachis strongly geniculate, slender. Floral bracts spreading or reflexed, linear-subulate to a soft point, 5 mm long, entire, free from the rhachis; flowers sessile, 23 mm long. Sepals free or nearly so, strongly asymmetric with a large wing on the right side, spreading-mucronulate, 12 mm long, nerved; petals acute, mucronulate, 17 mm long, bearing 2 crenate scales at base; stamens included, the second series adnate to the petals to above the scales; ovary subclavate, stout, 8 mm long, 6 mm in diameter; epigynous tube very large, funnelform.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in humid forest, 500-1300 m alt, Venezuela and Trinidad.
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