Gouda 2017a (Article) Aechmea

Aechmea paniculata: a large, but not very well known, species from Amazonian Peru

Author(s):—E.J. Gouda

Publication:—Journal of the Bromeliad Society 66(1): 20-25. (2017)

Abstract:—Until now this species was only known from the type collection and drawing in the Flora of Peru by Ruiz & Pavon (1802). Another collection from Venezula (Liesner, R.L., Julian Steyermark 12405) listed in the Missouri Botanical Garden database is probably Aechmea paniculigera (Sw.) Griseb. or Aechmea fendleri André ex Mez, based on the short description given: “Epiphyte. Rachis and pedicels pale red. Calyx reddish or greenish often with dark green or bluish apex. Corolla blue”. The inflorescence of Aechmea fendleri or Aechmea paniculigera looks quite similar to a primary branch of Aechmea paniculata, but the later is yellow and not bluish