Aechmea comata (Gaudich.) Baker

Taxonomic Change:

• —See Smith & Read 1982

Literature references:

Baker 1852: 107:6565 Belg. Hortic.: 23:81 Bromelia: 5(1-4):44 Bromtravels (Web) BSA (Web) FCBS (Web) Gaudichaud-Beaupré 1843: t.116 Golinski 1997 Klein 2023: 83 Klein & Klein 2013a: 2013(1): 12 Mee 1992: 31 Rauh 1979c: pl.67 Rauh 1981, 1990: Farbb. 67 Reitz 1983: 12 Smith & Downs 1979: 1878*

Smith & Downs 1979: 1880,1881: 1879*

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Comments:

• Comments from Walter Till Sept 2005 Pothuava comata Gaudich., the epithet bringing name, is from 1852 (not 1851, see Taxonomic Literature, 2nd ed, 1: 923 (1976)) and its type is plate 116 of Gaudichaud, Voyage de la Bonite, Atlas. The type of Hoplophytum lindenii, the basionym of Aechmea lindenii, is Gaudichaud s. n., a plant cultivated in Morren's garden in Liege. The material cited in Fl. Neotrop. 14(3): 1880 (1979) is not the type but (probably) a descendant of Gaudichaud s. n. which was given to Linden and then returned to Liege and flowered 20 years later, hence a clonotype (NOT a nomenclatoric type in the application of the ICBN.) See also the entry under Hoplophytum lindenii in Fl. Neotrop. 14(3): 1880, (1979) (Private corr from W Till)