Gouda et al. 2023- (Electronic)

Encyclopaedia of bromeliads, Version 5 cont.updated

Author(s):—E.J. Gouda, D. Butcher & L. Dijkgraaf

Publication:—Dutch-Belgian Bromeliad Society (BCG), Utrecht, The Netherlands (cont. upd.).

Taxonomy:—Aechmea pittieri Aechmea pittieri does not have the large lower branches resembling the top of the inflorescence as in Aechmea bracteata (not always present). The branches are long stipitate with a few (ca 3) digitate and relative longer spikes distally and the primary bracts are reducing in size upward in the inflorescence (vs. only the lower large, then abruptly short). .