Sastre 1999 (Article) Aechmea

Notules Antillaises

Author(s):—C. Sastre

Publication:—Biogeographica 75: 43. (1999)

Abstract:—Taxonomicai and biogcographical studies of the genera Alphanes Willd, (Arecaceae) and Aechmea R. et P. (Bromeliaceac) in Lesser Antilles. Three Aiphanes species are present in this area : A.erosa Linden ex Biuret (Guadeloupe, St Vincent, Barbados), A. luciam Bailey (Dominica, Martinique, Ste, Lucia) and A. minima (Gaert) Burret, endemic to the Martinique. Five Aechmea species are in the Lesser Antilles; one, A. reclinata Sastre et Brithmer sp. nov., endemic to the Martinique, is described. Aiphanes erosa, A minima, Aechmea flemingii Luther, endemic to Guadeloupe, A. serrata (L.) Mez, endemic to
Martinique and A. reclinata are critically endangered (CR).
KEY-WORDS.- Lesser Antilles, Aiphanes, Aechmea, A reclinata, critically endangered species

Keywords:—Lesser Antilles,llphanes,Aechmea,A. reclinata, critically endangered species

Published names (1):

Aechmea reclinata