Aechmea tayoensis

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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]

Physical Description

Habitat

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


List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Biology

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial shade.

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Chevaliera Tayoensis

Notes

Publishing author : A.J.Gilmartin Publication : Selbyana 5(3–4): 308 (1981) 1981

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

• Blackburn, C.H. 1996. Aechmea tayoensis. Journal of the Bromeliad Society 46(6): 241, 242, 265.
• Luther, H.E. 1989. A provisional checklist of the Bromeliaceae of Ecuador. Phytologia 67: 312-330.
• Luther, H.E. and Sieff, E. 1994. De Rebus Bromeliacearum-I. Selbyana 15: 9-93.
• Manzanares, J.M. 1998. Bromelioideae of Ecuador. National Herbarium of Ecuador (QCNE), Ecuador.
• 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.
• Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. Aechmea tayoensis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7150516
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-218279
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:896848-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 5624-2
• IUCN ID: 43227
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026828

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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