Aechmea mertensii (Meyer) Schult. & Schult.f. (1830)

Synonyms:

• Bromelia mertensii G.Meyer (1818)
• Aechmea spicata Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f. (1830)
• Bromelia thyrsiflora Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. (1830)
• Aechmea thyrsiflora (Wildenow ex Schultes filius) Schltdl. (1844)
• Billbergia mertensii (Meyer) Miq. (1844)
• Aechmea mucroniflora Hook. (1855)
• Hoplophytum mertensii (Meyer) Beer (1856)
• Hoplophytum mucroniflorum (Hook.) Beer (1856)
• Hoplophytum spicatum (Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Beer (1856)
• Hohenbergia martii Baker (1871)
• Hohenbergia mertensii (Meyer) Baker (1871)
• Hohenbergia mucroniflora (Hooker) Baker (1871)
• Hohenbergia spicata Baker (1871)
• Aechmea wullschlaegeliana Mez (1892)
• Aechmea humilis Mez (1896)
• Aechmea sergipana Pereira & Leme (1986)

Aechmea sergipana Pereira & Leme

Status: net yet published as syn.nov.

Publ: Bradea 4(34): 268 (1986)

Type: HOLOTYPUS: HB. Sergipe, localidade de Queimados. Plants. epifita, ca. 350msm. Leg. Alvim Seidel no 1003. Florida em cultivo em dezembro de 1985.

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Taxonomic Notes:

• treated as a synonym of Aechmea mertensii in Binomials 6, 1998
• Already cited as a synonym in the Binomials by H. Luther 1998 page 5, but no literature given. It has been compared with Aechmea setigera in the protolog, but is clearly the very variable Aechmea mertensi (personal communication with EG)