Aechmea germinyana (Carrière) Baker
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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. Carrière Hortus ex Germiny Hortus s n (typified by original description and illustration).
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Synonyms
Chevalliera germinyana Carrière, Bromelia daguensis Carrière
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Description
Description - Leaves 20-30 in a spreading rosette, often more than 1 m long, subchartaceous; sheaths ovate, distinct, large, densely and finely appressed-lepidote; blades ligulate, subobtuse with a broad pungent brown mucro, 3-7 cm wide, closely serrulate, appressed-lepidote beneath. Scape stout, erect; scape-bracts imbricate, lance-elliptic, green, pungent, serrulate. Inflorescence simple, many-flowered, ovoid to cylindric, 528 cm long, 4-7 cm in diameter, bearing a coma of sterile bracts at the apex. Floral bracts densely imbricate with apices spreading at anthesis, ovate-elliptic, broadly acute, slightly shorter than the mature flowers, scarlet, appressed-lepidote when young, becoming subglabrous, serrulate, subcoriaceous, flowers sessile, about 32 mm long. Sepals strongly asymmetric, subelliptic, 13 mm long, mucronulate, glabrous, free; petals about twice as long as the sepals, acute, white; stamens included, the second series connate with the petals up to the free part of the scales; anthers sublinear, 6 mm long, mucronulate; ovary 6 mm long, 3-angled; epigynous tube wanting; style about equaling the stamens; berry globose, 7 mm in diameter; seeds subfusiform, 3 mm long.
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Distribution
Terrestrial and epiphytic in forest, from near sea level to 1350 m alt, Panama, Colombia.
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