Aechmea bracteata

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Bromeliaceae

Herbs or rarely shrubs , epiphytic, lithophytic, or terrestrial . Leaves spirally arranged , usually rosulate, sessile, simple , veins parallel, base dilated , sheathing , margin often spinose serrate or sometimes entire. Inflorescence terminal or lateral , scapose or sessile, a panicle, raceme , spike, or head , sometimes reduced to solitary, pseudolateral flowers; bracts usually brightly colored and conspicuous . Flowers bisexual or sometimes functionally unisexual , 3-merous. Sepals and petals each 3, distinct , free or basally connate ; petals often brightly colored, basal margin with a pair of scalelike appendages . Stamens 6, in 2 whorls of 3; filaments free, connate, or collectively or individually adnate to petals; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Gynoecium of 3 carpels united to form a compound , 3-loculed, superior or very often partly or wholly inferior ovary ; ovules few to usually ± numerous in each locule; placentation axile . Style terminal and often 3-parted; stigmas papillose . Fruit a berry or less often a septicidal capsule, or seldom compound and fleshy . Seeds usually winged or plumose ; endosperm mealy ; embryo small to fairly large.

About 50 genera and 2000--2600 species: mainly tropical America, except for Pitcairnia feliciana (A. Chevalier) Harms & Mildbraed in tropical W Africa; one species (introduced ) in China.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,603 meters (0 to 5,259 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 21-Jun-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aechmea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 61 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. aquilegia (Aechmea) · A. azurea (Aechmea) · A. blanchetiana (Aechmea) · A. blumenavii (Aechmea) · A. bromeliifolia (Bromeliad) · A. bromeliifolia var. angustispica (Aechmea) · A. chantinii (Amazonian Zebra Plant) · A. chantinii 'Black Ebony' (Bromeliad) · A. chantinii 'Variegata' (Bromeliad) · A. chlorophylla (Bromeliad) · A. coelestis (Bromeliad) · A. disticantha (Bromeliad) · A. fasciata (Silver Vase Bromeliad) · A. fasciata var. purpurea (Silver Vase Bromeliad) · A. fasciata 'Primera' (Silver Vase Bromeliad) · A. fasciata 'Sangria' (Aechmea) · A. fosteriana rupicola (Lacquered Wine Cup) · A. friederike (Aechmea) · A. fulgens (Aechmea) · A. gamosepala (Bromeliad) · A. lindenii (Bromeliad) · A. lindenii var. makoyana (Aechmea) · A. lingulata (West Indian Livingvase) · A. luddemanniana (Aechmea) · A. magdalenae var. quadricolor (Bromeliad) · A. mariae-reginae (Bromeliad) · A. mariae-reginae 'Variegata' (Aechmea) · A. mexicana (Bromeliad) · A. mulfordii (Bromeliad) · A. mulfordii 'Jubilee' (Bromeliad) · A. nudicaulis (Bromeliad) · A. orlandiana 'Ensign' (Aechmea) · A. ornata (Bromeliad) · A. ornata var. nationalis (Bromeliad) · A. pectinata (Bromeliad) · A. pedicellata 'Nelwyn' (Aechmea) · A. pineliana (Bromeliad) · A. pineliana var. minuta (Bromeliad) · A. politii (Aechmea) · A. racinae (Aechmea) · A. ramosa (Aechmea) · A. recurvata (Bromeliad) · A. smithiorum (Bromeliad) · A. tillandsioides (Aechmea) · A. variegata (Variegated Bromeliad) · A. variegata 'Chantinii' (Variegated Bromeliad) · A. victoriana (Aechmea) · A. victoriana var. discolor (Aechmea) · A. zebrina (Bromeliad) · A. 'Bert' (Variegated Aechmea) · A. 'Blue Tango' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Burgundy' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Del Mar' (Dwarf Blue Tango) · A. 'Electra' (Aechmea) · A. 'Foster's Favorite' (Foster's Favorite Lacquered Wine Cup) · A. 'Galaxy' (Aechmea) · A. 'J C Superstar' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Patricia' (Bromeliad) · A. 'Samurai' (Aechmea) · A. 'Starbrite' (Starbrite Bromeliad) · A. 'Star of Linda' (Aechmea)

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Further Reading

• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 212.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 33 1957 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 286.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 9 1966 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 113, p. 21, p. 639, p. 89.
• Flora of Guatemala / by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark. 24 1958 Chicago: Chicago Museum of Natural History, 1958. url p. 382.
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 220.
• Flora of the Aguan valley and the coastal regions near La Ceiba, Honduras, by T. G. Yuncker. 9 1940 [Chicago]1940. url p. 265.
• Flora of the Lancetilla Valley, Honduras, by Paul C. Standley. 10 1931 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1931. url p. 126, p. 5, plate XVII.
• List of intercepted plant pests / United States Department of Agriculture, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.], 1932- url p. 35.
• Novon a journal of botanical nomenclature from the Missouri Botanical Garden. 13 2003 St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, url p. 211.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 176.
• Publication / Institute of Social Anthropology. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944- url p. 337, p. 341.
• The forests and flora of British Honduras / by Paul C. Standley and Samuel J. Record; in cooperation with the Conservator of Forests and the Agricultural Officer of the Colony. 12 1936 Chicago: [Field Museum of Natural History], 1936. url p. 90.
• Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 189.
• Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• INBio - Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen: Biologiezentrum Linz
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJÍO)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-XAL)
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU: Herbarium WU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3487891
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-217842
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:121570-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 121570-1
• MoBot NameID: 4300893
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 605611

Footnotes

1. Wei-liang Ma & Bruce Bartholomew "Bromeliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 18. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 278.560 meters (913.911 feet), Standard Deviation = 661.830 based on 188 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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