Aechmea fernandae (E.Morren) 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. Linden Hortus sn (LG, clonotype; photo GH), Sep 1879.
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Synonyms
Bromelia longifolia Rudge, Bromelia fernandae E.Morren, Ananas mensdorfianus Baker, Chevaliera fernandae (E.Morren) Baker, Aechmea schomburgkii Baker
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 3-4 dm high. Leaves many in a spreading rosette, to 1.5 m long; sheaths slightly wider than the blades, covered with brown scales; blades ligulate, acuminate, pungent, to 5 cm wide, green with the underside more or less reddish, laxly serrate with spines 2 mm long, sparsely lepidote. Scape erect, short, very stout, glabrous; scape-bracts subfoliaceous, very densely imbricate, recurved toward apex. Inflorescence simple, very densely strobilate, many-flowered, flattened-globose, to 14 cm in diameter; rhachis very stout, subglobose. Floral bracts lance-ovate, acute, recurved, longer than the flowers, serrulate-crenate, bright red, lepidote beneath; flowers sessile, to 5 cm long. Sepals nearly free, slightly asymmetric, acuminate, 3 cm long, thick-coriaceous, strongly carinate, rose; petals erect, acuminate, 35 mm long, greenish yellow, bearing ridges that enfold the filaments; stamens included; ovary compressed, appressed-lepidote, the epigynous tube large; placentae slightly higher than central; ovules obtuse.
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Distribution
Terrestrial in forest, to 160 m alt, central northern Brazil.
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