Aechmea manzanaresiana

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Overview

Endangered

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

Ecology: Amazonian forest (1,000–1,500 m ).[2]


List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : H.Luther Publication : Selbyana 19(2): 222 (1998 publ. 1999) 1999

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aechmea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 497 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. 'Beyes Giant' · A. abbreviata · A. aciculosa · A. aculeatosepala · A. agavifolia · A. alba · A. alegrensis · A. allenii · A. alopecurus · A. amazonica · A. amicorum · A. amorimii · A. ampla · A. ampullacea · A. andersoniana · A. andersonii · A. andradeae · A. andradei · A. angustifolia · A. 'Ann Vincent' · A. anomala · A. apocalyptica · A. aquilega · A. aquilega var. chrysocoma · A. aquilegia (Aechmea) · A. aquilegia var. chrysocoma · A. aquilegiodes · A. aquilegioides · A. araneosa · A. arenaria · A. aripensis · A. armata · A. augusta · A. aurantiaca · A. aureo-rosea · A. 'Aztec Gold' · A. azurea (Aechmea) · A. bahiana · A. bambusoides · A. barleei · A. basi-lateralis · A. beeriana · A. benrathii · A. bernoulliana · A. 'Bert' (Variegated Aechmea) · A. bicolor · A. biflora · A. billbergioides · A. bituminosa · A. blanchetiana (Aechmea) · A. blanchetiana 'Wally Berg' · A. blanchetii · A. 'Blue Tango' (Bromeliad) · A. blumenavii (Aechmea) · A. bocainensis · A. boliviana · A. brachycaulis · A. brachyclada · A. brachystachya · A. bracteata · A. bracteata (Sw.) Griseb. var. bracteata · A. bracteata var. pacifica · A. brasiliensis · A. brassicoides · A. brevicollis · A. bromeliaefolia · A. bromelifolia · A. bromeliifolia (Bromeliad) · A. bromeliifolia var. albobracteata · A. bromeliifolia var. angustispica (Aechmea) · A. bruggeri · A. burchellii · A. 'Burgundy' (Bromeliad) · A. burle-marxii · A. caerulea · A. caerulescens · A. caesia · A. calatheoides · A. callichroma · A. calyculata · A. campanulata · A. canaliculata · A. candida · A. capitata · A. capixabae · A. cariocae · A. carvalhoi · A. castanea · A. castelnavii · A. cathcartii · A. caudata · A. caudata var. eipperi · A. caudata var. variegata · aechmea chantilli · aechmea chantilli 'black ebony' · A. chantini · A. chantinii (Amazonian Zebra Plant) · A. chantinii 'Red Form' · A. chantinii 'Black Chantini' · A. chantinii 'Black Ebony' (Bromeliad)

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Further Reading

• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, van Hertum J, eds (2008). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist Taxonomic Classification. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7150508
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-218088
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:317871-2
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 317871-2
• IUCN ID: 43223
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026824

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. Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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