Androlepis skinneri var. mexicana Rauh[as Androlepis skinneri var. mexicana Rauh]

Observations: —The plant was collected in 1971 as a young species of Aechmea. After 12 years, it flowered in the Botanical Garden of Heidelberg University for the first time. A sure proof that the species is in Mexico, because L. B. SMITH writes in Flora Neotropica, 14/3, p 1526: "doubtfully referred to Mexico ".

The plant collected in South Mexico is also lax and is a male plant like the Guatemalan-plant but differs from this in following characteristics:
Inflorescence axis thicker; Primary side branch very short; floral groups therefore almost sessile; sterile ovary short and rounded; Sepals at the base very thick and swelling to the sessile ovary; Petals not flat extended but hooded at the top; free sections of the filament wider than the Guatemalan plant, fleshy; Anther appendage shining orange-yellow, bent strongly hornlike, therefore shorter than the anthers.
Whether differences are enough for the installation of individual varieties must wait for further collections especially female plants.

Edited from : Rauh 1983c. Bromelienstudien (Mitteilung 14). I. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten aus Peru und anderen Ländern .