Aechmea sergipana Pereira & Leme

Taxonomic Change:

• treated as a synonym of Aechmea mertensii in Binomials 6, 1998
• Already cited as a synonym in the Binomials by H. Luther 1998 page 5, but no literature given.
  It has been compared with Aechmea setigera in the protolog, but is clearly the very variable Aechmea mertensi (personal communication with EG)