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Aechmea lingulata (L.) Baker

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Wittmackia lingulata (L.) Mez, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 3^: 275. 1891
Bromelia lingulala L. Sp. PI. 285. 1753. Billbergia odora Miq. Linnaea 18: 377. 1844. Hoplophylum lingulatum Beer, Bromel. 139. 1857. Lamprococcus ramosus Beer. Bromel. 106. 1857. Aechmea surinamensis Van Houttc; Beer, Bromel. 106. 1857. Cheralliera lingulala Griseb. FI. Brit. W. Ind. 591. 1864. HohenbergiaodoraBaker.Reiug.Bot. pi. 2S-f. 3. 1871. Aechmea lingulala Baker, Jour. Bot. 17: 164. 1879. Aechmea odora Baker, Jour. Bot. 17: 226. 1879. Aechmea Plumieri Baker, Handb. Bromel. 50. 1889.
Leaves up to 13 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, very large; blades ligulate, 5-10 cm. wide, rounded-apiciJate, finely spinose-serrate ; scape slender, at first light-floccose, later glabrous; scape-bracts lanceolate, acuminate, entire or sparingly fine-dentate, bright-red; inflorescence ample, its branches 9-25 cm. long, suberect to spreading and often arching; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, much shorter than the axillary branches, spreading; floral bracts narrowed from a broadly ovate base into a bristle-like point, about equaling the ovary; flowers 12-18 mm. long; sepals 3 ram. long without the mucro, glabrous; petals 7-10 mm. long; stamens shorter than the petals, anthers mucronate; ovary ellipsoid-cylindric to clavatc, 7 mm. long; fruit white or red.
Type locality: Tropical America.
UisTRiDunoN: Porto Rico and I.csscr Antilles; Costa Rica; also in Trinidad, (>uiaiia, and northern Brazil.
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Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Aechmea lingulata

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Aechmea lingulata is a plant species in the genus Aechmea. This species is native to the West Indies (Bahamas, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles etc.), Costa Rica, Panama and northern South America.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Two varieties are recognized:[1]

  1. Aechmea lingulata var. lingulata - most of species range
  2. Aechmea lingulata var. patentissima (Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) L.B.Sm. - eastern Brazil

References

  1. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Luther, Harry E. (1995). "An Annotated Checklist of the Bromeliaceae of Costa Rica". Selbyana. 16 (2): 230–234. ISSN 0361-185X. JSTOR 41759911.
  3. ^ Holst, Bruce K. (1 February 1994). "Checklist of Venezuelan Bromeliaceae with Notes on Species Distribution by State and Levels of Endemism". Selbyana. 15 (1): 132–149. ISSN 2689-0682. JSTOR 41759858.
  4. ^ Correll, D.S. & Correll, H.B. (1982). Flora of the Bahama Archipelago: 1-1692. J.Cramer, Vaduz.
  5. ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.
  6. ^ Sant'Ana Melhem, T., das Graças Lapa Wanderley, M., Ehlin Martins, S., Jung-Mendaçolli, S.L., Shepherd, G.J. & Kirizawa, M. (eds.) (2007). Flora Fanerogâmica do Estado de São Paulo 5: 1-476. Instituto de Botânica, São Paulo.
  7. ^ Versieux, L.M., Wendt, T., Batista Louzada, R. & das Graças Lapa Wanderley, M. (2008 publ. 2009). Bromeliaceae da Cadeia do Espinhaço. Megadiversidade 4: 98-110.
  8. ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
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Aechmea lingulata: Brief Summary

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Aechmea lingulata is a plant species in the genus Aechmea. This species is native to the West Indies (Bahamas, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles etc.), Costa Rica, Panama and northern South America.

Two varieties are recognized:

Aechmea lingulata var. lingulata - most of species range Aechmea lingulata var. patentissima (Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) L.B.Sm. - eastern Brazil
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