Aechmea veitchii 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. Kew Hortus s n (holotype, K; photo, GH), Colombia.
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Synonyms
Chevaliera veitchii (Baker) E.Morren
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Description
Description - Plant stoloniferous, about 1 m high. Leaves 12-17 in a loosely cyathiform rosette, nearly straight, 3-10 dm long; sheaths short and indistinct; blades ligulate, abruptly acute, apiculate, pungent, 4-6 cm wide, glabrous and pale green above with spots of dark green, covered beneath with fine appressed cinereous scales, subdensely serrulate, broadly channeled. Scape erect, stout; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous, acute or acuminate, spinulose-serrate. Inflorescence simple with flowers many-ranked, densely spicate, cylindric or slenderly conic, 1-4 dm long, 30-55 mm in diameter. Floral bracts equaling or longer than the flowers but with the upper half sharply reflexed, lance-ovate, acuminate, pungent, 12-15 mm long, densely spinose-serrate, bright red, glabrous above, sparsely white-furfuraceous beneath; flowers suberect, 2 cm long. Sepals asymmetric, acute, pungent, 13 mm long, white with the apex rose, free; petals fugacious, ligulate, obtuse, barely exserted, bearing 2 oblique denticulate scales near the base; stamens included, the second series short-connate with the petals; ovary stoutly obconic, glabrous, white; placentae apical; ovules caudate.
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Distribution
Forest, near sea level to 1900 m alt, Costa Rica to Peru.
Costa Rica South America| Cartago Costa Rica Central America| Panama Central America| Darién Panamá Central America| Colombia South America| Boyacá Colombia South America| Tolima Colombia South America| Valle Colombia South America| Peru South America| Loreto Peru South America| Huánuco Peru South America|