Aechmea tocantina Baker

  • Authority

    Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Aechmea tocantina Baker

  • Description

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    Species Description - Plants 50-150 cm tall or more, forming a tubular or subbulbous rosette, olive- to cinereous-green. Leaves 90-150 cm (to over 2 m) long, densely lepidote; sheath entire; blade rigid, fleshy, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate or very narrowly triangular, 8-15 cm wide, subdensely dentate, attenuate, acute, the margin with concolorous, 5—10 mm long teeth. Inflorescences 90-110 cm long, in lower part 2-branched, with 50- 100 primary lateral branches, dense, the fertile part cylindric, the peduncle prominent, erect, 60-80 cm long, the spikelets subdensely distichously 3-8-flowered, complanate, ovate-oblong, 1-3.5 X ca. 1.5 cm wide, the floral bracts carinate toward apex, broadly ovate, ca. 0.6 cm long (excluding apical spine), entire, sparsely lepidote-floccose or ferrugineous abaxially, greenish. Flowers divergent, sessile; sepals strongly asymmetrical, 0.4-0.5 cm long, evenly short-connate; petals yellow.

    Distribution and Ecology - Fl (Aug); epiphyte on lower branches of large trees, common.