Billbergia euphemiae E.Morren

Literature references:

Acta Bot. Brasil.: 22:1178 Baensch & Baensch 1994: 90,91 Baker 1852: 108:6632 Belg. Hortic.: 22:10 Bromtravels (Web) FCBS (Web) J. Bromeliad Soc.: 18:12d Machado 2012: 134* Morren Icons: kew 9-281* Oliva-Esteve 2000a: 99 Padilla 1973, 1986: 37 Richter 1962, 1978: 206 Smith & Downs 1979: 2012,2013 Wendt 2010: 39 Wien Herbarium, Inst

Williams 2006 Wilson & Wilson 1963: 69 Wilson 1977: 32

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Comments:

• Key to Varieties of Billbergia euphemiae
  
  1. Leaves green, wholly or in part.
  2. Leaves with pale cross-bands or nearly concolorous.
  3. Inflorescence lax or sublax; rhachis geniculate; lower floral bracts like the scape-
  bracts. var euphemiae.
  3. Inflorescence subdense; rhachis nearly straight; floral bracts all minute or only the
  lowest large. var nudiflora. NOW CONSIDERED THE SAME AS TYPE
  2. Leaves pale-spotted but not banded. var saundersioides.
  1. Leaves purple. var purpurea. —See Smith & Downs 1979