Aechmea penduliflora André

  • 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

    Aechmea penduliflora André

  • Type

    Type. André 378 (holotype, K, photo GH), Isla Brava, Rio Magdalena between Yondó (Antioquia) and Chucurí (Santander), Colombia, 8 Dec 1875.

  • Synonyms

    Billbergia paniculata Mart., Aechmea schultesiana Mez, Aechmea friedrichsthalii Donn.Sm., Aechmea inermis Mez

  • Description

    Description - Leaves 5-7 dm long, thin; sheaths conspicuous, ovate, brown-lepidote especially beneath; blades ligulate, not constricted at base, abruptly acute, apiculate, 2-4 cm wide, pale-lepidote beneath, soon glabrous, subentire or armed toward the base with fine teeth 1 mm long. Scape erect to decurved, 3-5 mm in diameter, soon glabrous; scape-bracts erect, the lower remote, the upper massed beneath the inflorescence, lanceolate or elliptic, acute or acuminate, entire or nearly so, membranaceous, bright red. Inflorescence paniculate, bipinnate or the lower branches divided, subdensely ellipsoid, 7-15 cm long, fertile throughout, soon glabrous; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, equaling or exceeding the branches, the upper much reduced; spikes suberect to spreading, 35 mm long, distichously 6-10-flowered, internodes 4-5 mm long. Floral bracts suborbicular, 2-5 mm long, equaling the ovary at anthesis, thin, nerved; flowers erect. Sepals asymmetric, subovate, obtuse, entire or obscurely mucronulate, 4-6 mm long, free or subfree; petals 13 mm long, bearing 2 fimbriate scales above the base; ovary ellipsoid or subglobose, much enlarged in fruit, epigynous tube short; placentae apical.

  • Common Names

    Pina

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial or more often epiphytic 100-900 m alt, Nicaragua to Peru and Amazonian Brazil.

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