Aechmea egleriana L.B.Sm.

Literature references:

Baensch & Baensch 1994: 151p Bromtravels (Web) Die Bromelie: 1996:1p FCBS (Web): cp J. Bromeliad Soc.: 23:133 52:31: 63(3-6):238 Mee 1996: 87 Moonen 2015b: 82* Moonen 2016d: 59* Moonen 2016c: 207, 208* NY Bot. Garden Oliva-Esteve 2006: 254,312 Reitz 1962: 26:86db Smith & Downs 1979: 1862,1864: 1863*: 1863*: 1863* Tropiflora Cargo Rep: 18(1) U.S. Nat. Herb.

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Comments:

• The type specimen of Aechmea polyantha, does not look much like (except the leaf) the specimen on the (well known) painting by Mee (Baensch 1994). The painting was made from a specimen from Amazonas, Rio Marau near Manaus (type location of A. polyantha), January 1973. Mee's painting (not known if any voucher specimen was collected) looks more like Aechmea egleriana (the floral bracts inconspicuous and broad leafsheaths contracted in a very narrow blade). The painting of A. meeana (Baensch 1994, see note about this species) is probably A. polyantha, but not from the type location if the information on the painting is correct. Both paintings were also published on the cover of the Journal of the German Bromeliad Society, "Die Bromelie" 3/1993 and 1/1996.
  It is interesting to note that in French Guiana, Aechmea polyantha, A. rodrigueziana and A. egleriana are found growing in the same habitat, the rocky outcrop of savane Roche de Virginie, but also in the forest as they do near Manaus, Brazil. —See Gouda 1999 p. 20(1) 2000