Neoregelia farinosa (Ule) L.B.Sm.

Literature references:

FCBS (Web) Golinski 1997 Machado 2012: 134*: 138* Padilla 1966: 50b Rauh 1979c: pl.103 Rauh 1981, 1990: Farbb. 103 Smith & Downs 1979: 1551

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• Misnamed Bromeliads, 1 by Harry E. Luther in J Brom. Soc. 38(5):209. 1988
  Over the past several years a number of misnamed or unnamed bromeliads well represented in horticulture have been brought to my attention. As they frequently appear in shows and sales I hope to clear up the identities of these troublemakers by means of this occasional series. One way of keeping track of these notes is to make suitable entries in your copy of Victoria Padilla's Bromeliads, that indispensible companion.
  ? Canistrum triangulare L.B. Smith & Reitz, 1963. This plant is universally grown as Canistrum fosterianum `var. pardinum', a name of no official standing. As this species infrequently flowers in cultivation, few growers have had the opportunity to see how different it is from true C. fosterianum. At least two forms are grown: a narrow-leaf and a more common blunt, broad-leaf selection.
  ? Neoregelia farinosa (Ule) L.B. Smith, 1939 `Roseostriata'. Commonly grown as Neoregelia carolinae 'var. roseostriata'. This cultivar bears little resemblance to N. carolinae even out of flower, but the original, incorrect epithet has persisted for at least 15-18 years unquestioned. First collected by Alvim Seidel, "many years ago, a unique plant, in Santa Theresa, Espirito Santo. . . " (A. Seidel, pers. comm., 1981).
  ? Vriesea lubbersii Baker E. Morren ex Mez. 1894. For many years this plant was known as Vriesea corcovadensis, later it was occasionally labeled V. triangularis in collections. This is another bromeliad that rarely blooms and the true identity could not be completed. It was quite certainly not V. corcovadensis as that species has much more numerous and narrower leaves (like. V. flammea and V. poenulata). V. lubbersii with its laxly flowered, compound inflorescence is easily distinguished from V. triangularis which has a simple, dense inflorescence. The latter species is not known by me to be in cultivation. —See Smith & Downs 1979