Besides the type, two more collections from Guyana were found (T. McDowell & D. Gopaul 3546 and 3480, both from Eagle Mountain, near the type location, collected in Oct. 1990, [US] ). This species strongly resembles Pseudaechmea ambigua L B Smith & R W Read, from Colombia and is suspected to be closely related. It has strongly asymmetrical sepals, a very shallow epigynous tube above the ovary and caudate ovules. The inflorescence is bipinnate at the base or pseudo-simple (with one-flowered branches). Ligules on the petals are highly adnate to the petals and sometimes difficult to find. at this time, ligules on the petals are keeping these two probably closely related species in two different genera. But, this characteristic has proven to be very unreliable in many cases for Generic level classification (Grant 1995) and the relation between these two species is subject for further investigation. —SeeGouda 1999p. 20(1)
