Group: Monocot Rank: species Kind: Name of a new Taxon Herbarium Placement: Lehmann, lower, C, 32

Authors:

Smith, Lyman Bradford

Published In: Phytologia 10: 484, t. 2, f. 3–5. 1964. (Phytologia)
Annotation: Known only from the type collection; see Luther, J. Bromeliad Soc. 30: 197-9. 1980.

Type-Protologue

Locality: Peru.

Collector and Number: Nally s.n.

Distribution: Peru (probably from the Amazonian).

Institution(s): HT: US

Type Specimens

• HT: Nally s.n.; 1963; Peru without further locality but probably from Amazonian collections of Lee Moore cultivated in Gotha, Florida

Higher Taxa:     Taxonomy Browser
Concept: Andean Bryophytes Bolivia Checklist Catalogue of New World Grasses Ecuador Catalogue Flora Mesoamericana Madagascar Catalogue Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of China Peru Checklist Philippine Bryophytes System    details

• class:  Equisetopsida C. Agardh
• subclass:  Magnoliidae Novák ex Takht.
• superorder:  Lilianae Takht.
• order:  Poales Small
• family:  !!Bromeliaceae Juss.
• genus:  !!Aechmea Ruiz & Pav.

Conservation Status:

• NT - Near Threatened - National
  • Reference Betancur B., J. C. & N. García. 2006. Las bromelias (Familia Bromeliaceae). Libro Rojo Pl. Colombia 3: 3: 51–383.
  • Conservation System IUCN. 2001. IUCN Red List Categ. Crit. v. 3.1 ii, 1–30. IUCN, Gland.

Other names for this basionym:

!Platyaechmea retusa (L.B. Sm.) L.B. Sm. & W.J. Kress

**Platyaechmea retusa (L.B. Sm.) L.B. Sm. & W.J. Kress

Projects: Ecuador , Peru , VPA

Keywords: BROM, PERU, CEC