Aechmea penduliflora

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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 3,051 meters (0 to 10,010 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

• Morales, J.F. Bromeliaceae. In: Hammel, B.E.; Zamora, N. y Grayum, M.H. (eds.). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica. Missouri Bot. Gard. Press, St. Louis and Inst. Nac. de Biodiversidad, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica (en preparación).
• 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 11, 2007:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3487855
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-218167
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15278864
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:121767-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 121767-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 605616

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 = 493.300 meters (1,618.438 feet), Standard Deviation = 583.410 based on 177 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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