Aechmea mollis L.B.Sm.

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1979. Bromelioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (3): 1493-2142. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Aechmea mollis L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    Type. Belém 3684 (holotype, US; isotype, NY), terrestrial, bank of Rio Una, near Una, Bahia, Brazil, 7 Jun 1968.

  • Description

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    Description - Leaves rosulate, to 5 dm long; sheaths elliptic, 11 cm long, subdensely brown-lepidote; blades ligulate, narrowed toward base, subacute with a terminal mucro 7 mm long, obscurely pale-lepidote beneath, glabrous above, laxly serrulate. Scape 7 cm long; scape-bracts densely imbricate, the upper elliptic, apiculate. Inflorescence bipinnate, densely subglobose, 6 cm wide, densely and finely brown-lanate with only primary bracts and petal-blades visible; primary bracts ovate, mucronate, about equaling the lower spikes, purplish; spikes dense with the few flowers apparently polystichous. Floral bracts suborbicular, mucronulate, serrulate, about equaling the sepals, thin, nerved; flowers sessile. Sepals strongly asymmetric, 12 mm long, connate for 3 mm, mucronulate, the keel alate and serrulate; petals yellow, bearing 2 suborbicular scale3 at base; ovary compressed and with serrulate wings continuing those of the sepals; epigynous tube 3 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Known from the type collection only.

    Bahia Brazil South America|