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)

Hohenbergia spicata Baker

Status: Synonym

Publ: Bromeliaceae in Saunders, W.W. (ed.) Refugium Botanicum 4. Figures and descriptions from living specimens of little known of new plants of botanical interest. 4 sub t. 284 (1871)

Taxonomic Change:

• Treated as a synonym of Aechmea spicata, hence to Aechmea mertensii. —See Mez 1935 p. 131