Aechmea smithiorum Mez

Aechmea smithiorum Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 246. 1896
Plant 55 cm. high; leaves 7 dm. long; sheaths distinct, elliptic, obscurely brown-punctulate; blades ligulate, rounded-mucronate, 4-5 cm. wide, pale-green, minutely punctulate-lepidote, densely armed with dark-brown, antrorsely uncinate spines up to 3 mm. long; scape erect (?), slender, sparsely tomentulosc; scape-bracts erect, lanceolate, acuminate, entire; inflorescence compound with simple branches, densely ellipsoid, obtuse, 12 cm. long, 5 cm. in diameter, cinereous-pubescent; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, exceeding the axillary branches; spikes sessile or subsessile, erect, dense, polyslichous on the main axis, distichously 6-13-flowered, fertile throughout, ovate or oblong, acute, 4-5 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, strongly complanate; floral bracts cymbiform, 1 1 mm. long without the 5 mm. long mucro, distinctly exceeded by the sepals, forming a pouch with the broadly winged rhachis, entire, prominently nerved; flowers sessile, suberect, 2 cm. long; sepals asymmetric, 1 cm. long without the 3 nun. long terminal mucro, cinereous-tomentulose, connate for I mm.; petals bearing 2 slightly incised scales at base; ovary 5 mm. long, enlarged in fruit, the epigynous tube .short; ovules borne at the top of the cell, caudate.
TvPB WjCalitv: St. Vincent, altitude 300-500 meters. niSTBiBUTTON: Known only from the type locality.

Aechmea smithiorum (lat. Aechmea smithiorum) — bromeliyakimilər fəsiləsinin exmeya cinsinə aid bitki növü.

Aechmea smithiorum is a plant species in the genus Aechmea. It is a medium-sized bromeliad with broad green leaves and a striking white rosette.

Aechmea smithiorum is a rare bromeliad that grows as an epiphyte and sometime terrestrially. It is indigenous to seasonal forest and lower montane rainforests of the Lesser Antilles: Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada.

Aechmea smithiorum est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Bromeliaceae, endémique des Petites Antilles.

Aechmea smithiorum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Bromeliaceae. Loài này được Mez mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1896.