Pico-V 2020 (Article) Aechmea

First Record of Aechmea nallyi L.B.Sm. in Colombia

Author(s):—A. Pico V.

Publication:—Journal of the Bromeliad Society 69(4): 188-197. (2018)

Abstract:—According to the Catalog of plants and lichens of Colombia (online edition, Betancur, 2019), there are 25 genera and 545 species and/or varieties of bromeliads in Colombia. The online Encyclopedia of Bromeliads (Gouda et al, 2020) lists 693 species in 39 genera in Colombia. Taking 3623 (Gouda et al., 2020) as the number of bromeliad species and or varieties in the Americas, we see that Colombia hosts 15.0% of all recognized bromeliad species based on the numbers given in Betancur (2019) and 19.1% based on the numbers given in Gouda et. al. (2020). In accordance with the numbers presented in Gouda et al. (2020) Colombia ranks fourth in bromeliad diversity among the countries of the Americas, following Brazil with 1734 species, Ecuador with 733 species and Peru with 728 species.