Bromelia antiacantha Bertol (1824)

Synonyms:

• Bromelia acanga sensu Willd. (1809)
• Bromelia commeliniana de Vriese (1844)
• Bromelia sceptrum Fenzl ex Hügel (1844-1860)
• Bromelia commelina de Vriese (1853)
• Agallostachys antiacantha (Bertoloni) Beer (1856)
• Agallostachys commeliniana (de Vriese) Beer (1856)
• Bromelia fastuosa sensu Regel (1866)
• Bromelia pinguin sensu Carrière (1881)
• Hechtia longifolia hort. ex Baker (1889)

Hechtia longifolia hort. ex Baker

Status: nom.inval. (not accepted by author, icn article 36.1)

Publ: Handb. Bromel. 140 (1889)

Type: Country unknown. We have had this at Kew since 1872, but it has not flowered. It came so named from Dr. Regel. In habit and leaf it closely resembles Bromelia fastuosa.

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