Bromelia karatas L.  (in part, as to questioned synonym above, not as to type described as ("...paniculata diffusa"), sensu Jacquin)

Literature references:

Antoine 1884: 21 ,22: 21 ,22 Bromtravels (Web) Dunstan 2014a: 64(2): 89 Dunstan 2015: 26 FCBS (Web) Foster 19??: fig.15 Holst 1997: 581 Holst 2018: 205 J. Bromeliad Soc.: 15:126b 19:13b 33:110 43:144 47:114 51:52 Jacquin 1770: 31,32 Manzanares 2002a: 130 Mez 1935: 25 Moonen 2018b: 97 Morales 1998, 2000: 45 Morales 2003b: 558c Oliva-Esteve & Steyermark 1987: 126 Padilla 1973, 1986: 43 Plumier 1703: 33 Siqueira & Leme 2006: 259 Smith & Downs 1979: 1665*

Smith & Downs 1979: 1681 Tropicos Tropiflora Cargo Rep: 18(1) Wien Herbarium, Inst

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Comments:

• There is still today a small Miskito Indian village on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua named Karata. In the `Diccionario Miskito-Espagnol, Espagnol-Miskito', by Marx & Heath (1992), the word `kara' is the name for "Bromelia karatas plumiere", and `ta' for "cape" or "point". As was explained to JRG in Karata in March 1994 by the local people, the name of their village came from the plant `kara' that grew on the "point" of their peninsula. —See Selbyana p. ???