Aechmea EXCLUDED TAXA

Names:

• Echinostachys oblonga Brongn. (1828)
• Macrochordium lamarchei Baker (1889)
• Aechmea makoyana hort. Makoy (1893)
• Hoplophytum lineatum hort. Bull (1893)
• Lamprococcus speciosus hort. Bull (1893)
• Hoplophytum makoyanum Micheli (1894)
• Billbergia forgetiana hort. Sander (1903)
• Aechmea loesenera hort. ex Gentil (1907)
• Aechmea lindenii var. makoyana Mez (1934)
• Aechmea ornata var. nationalis Reitz (1952)
• Aechmea caudata var. variegata M.B.Foster (1953)
• Aechmea comata var. makoyana (Mez) L.B.Sm. (1955)
• Aechmea coelestis var. albomarginata M.B.Foster (1957)
• Aechmea nudicaulis var. capitata Reitz (1965)
• Aechmea magdalenae var. quadricolor M.B.Foster (1966)
• Aechmea nudicaulis var. plurifolia E.Pereira (1972)
• Aechmea nudicaulis var. flavomarginata E.Pereira (1975)
• Aechmea nudicaulis var. simulans E.Pereira (1977)
• Aechmea fasciata var. flavivittata Reitz (1981)
• Aechmea kertesziae var. viridiaurata Reitz (1981)
• Aechmea nudicaulis forma tabuleirensis (Reitz) Reitz (1983)
• Aechmea x pseudonudicaulis Leme emend. Gouda (1987)
• Chevaliera magdalenae var. quadricolor (M.B.Foster) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1989)
• Ortgiesia coelestis var. albomarginata (M.B.Foster) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1989)
• Ortgiesia kertesziae var. viridiaurata (Reitz) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1989)
• Ortgiesia lindenii var. makoyana (Mez) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1989)
• Pothuava nudicaulis var. flavomarginata (Pereira) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1989)
• Pothuava nudicaulis var. simulans (Pereira) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1989)
• Pothuava ornata var. nationalis (Reitz) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1989)
• Platyaechmea fasciata var. flavivittata (Reitz) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress (1990)
• Aechmea calyculata var. variegata T.Strehl (2004)

Aechmea caudata var. variegata M.B.Foster

Status: Synonym

Publ: J. Bromeliad Soc. 3(5): 47 (1953)

Type: Foster 2834 (holotype, US), cultivated, from Brazil, June 1955.

Description: click here.

Taxonomic Change:

• Considered a variegated cultivar and now named Aechmea 'Forget me not' in the BCR (personal communication with Derek Butcher)