Aechmea curranii (L.B.Sm.) L.B.Sm. & M.A.Spencer
Status: Synonym
Publ: Phytologia 72(2): 97 (1992)
Type: Curran 143 (holotype, US), Rio Grungogi, Bahia, Brazil, Oct-Nov 1915.
Description: click here.
Taxonomic Notes:
- Very similar to A. turbinocalyx. A better delimitation between Aechmea curranii and Aechmea turbinocalyx will depend on more field collections. No further field studies have been reported but Luther decided that it was a synonym see Binomial listings. —See Faria & Wendt 2004 p. 279-284
- Treated as a synonym of Aechmea turbinocalyx Mez —See Binomials 13 (2012) p. 41
