Billbergia speciosa Thunb. in part (1821)

Synonyms:

• Billbergia elegans Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f. (1830)
• Billbergia amoena var. penduliflora M.B.Foster (1962)

Billbergia amoena var. penduliflora M.B.Foster

Status: Synonym

Publ: J. Bromeliad Soc. 12(3): 51 (1962)

Type: Collected in Minas Gerais, near Caraca, Brazil, in July 1940 by M. B. and R. Foster #683. (Type in U. S. National Herbarium.)

Description: click here.

Taxonomic Notes:

• treated as a synonym of B. sanderiana in Smith & Downs but seems better as B. elegans —See Smith & Downs 1979