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Aechmea angustifolia Pocpp. iV Iviuil. Nov Gen. & vSp. 2: 43. 1H37.
flophphytum an^usti/olium Beer, Hromcl. 132. 1857. Hohenhcr^ia angustifolia Baker. Rcfug. Bol. pt. 2H4. 3. 1871. Aechmea Cumingii Baker, Jour. Bol. 17: 227. IH79. Aechmea fxAiviana Rushy. Bull. N. V. But. (lard. 4: 456. 1907. Aechmea cylindrica Mez, Report. Sp. Nov. 12; 413. 1913.
Aechmea imonspicua Harms. Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 10: 786. 1929.
Plant up to 75 cm. high; leaves .10-15 in a dense utriculate ellipsoid rosette, 5-7 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, 1 dm. long, densely and finely brown-appressed-lepidote; blades ligulate, 3-6 cm. wide, appressed-cinereous-lepidote, spinose-serrate, concolorous; scape erect, white-flocculose, becoming glabrous; scape-bracts elliptic, acute, denticulate, red; inflorescence dense or lax, compound with simple branches, cylindric, fertile throughout, 15-36 cm. long; axes puberulent; lowest primary bracts like the scape-bracts, exceeding the axillary spikes, the others abruptly reduced to about the size of the floral bracts, ovate or narrowly triangular, acuminate; spikes spreading or reflexed, distichously 10-flowered, 20-45 mm. long; rhachis undulate, compressed; floral bracts spreading, cjinbiforra, broadly ovate with a straight mucro, convex, puberulent, 5 mm. long, barely exceeding the ovary; flowers sessile, 12-16 mm. long; sepals asymmetric, raucronate, 4-5 mm. long, sublgabrous, free; petals linear, mucronate, 8-10 mm. long, bearing 2 scales well above the base; ovary ellipsoid; ovules borne at the summit of the cell, caudate.
Type locality: Tocache and Yurimagiias. Prov. Maynas, Peru. Distribution: Costa Rica and Panama; also in Colombia, Brazil, and Bolivia.
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Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Aechmea angustifolia

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Aechmea angustifolia is a plant species in the genus Aechmea. This species is native to Central America and northern South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, northern Brazil).[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Cultivars

The species is widely cultivated as an ornamental. Cultivars include:[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
  3. ^ Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
  4. ^ Aguirre-Santoro, Julian; Betancur, Julio (2008). "Sinopsis del Género Aechmea (Bromeliaceae) para Colombia" [Synopsis of Aechmea (Bromeliaceae) for Colombia]. Caldasia (in Spanish). 30 (2): 265–288. ISSN 0366-5232. JSTOR 23641894.
  5. ^ Morales, J.F. (2009). Novedades y notas misceláneas en las Bromeliaceae de Mesoamérica. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 3: 113-116.
  6. ^ Krömer, Thorsten; Kessler, Michael; Holst, Bruce K.; Luther, Harry E.; Gouda, Eric J.; Ibisch, Pierre L.; Till, Walter; Vásquez, Roberto (1 October 1999). "Checklist of Bolivian Bromeliaceae with Notes on Species Distribution and Levels of Endemism". Selbyana. 20 (2): 201–223. ISSN 2689-0682. JSTOR 41760025.
  7. ^ Luther, H.E. (1999). "Bromeliaceae". In Jørgensen, P.M.; León-Yánez, S. (eds.). Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador = Catálogo de las plantas vasculares del Ecuador (PDF). St. Louis, Mo.: Missouri Botanical Garden Press. pp. 337–361. ISBN 978-0915279609. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 September 2006.
  8. ^ BSI Cultivar Registry Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 11 October 2009
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Aechmea angustifolia is a plant species in the genus Aechmea. This species is native to Central America and northern South America (Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, northern Brazil).

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