Aechmea winkleri
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Aechmea winkleri
Species
Aechmea winkleri Reitz, Bromelia (Sellowia no. 26:) 1: 63, pl. 1.1975.
Desc from S&D
Plant flowering 30-35 cm high.
Leaves 10, rosulate, 30-36 cm long, green;
Sheaths subelliptic, wholly lepidote, serrulate toward apex;
Blades suberect, ligulate, broadly rounded and apiculate, 4 cm wide, laxly serrulate with antrorse spines 0.5 mm long.
Scape erect, sparsely white-lanate, 2.5 mm thick;
Scape-bracts remote, elliptic, acute, entire, reddish green with a stramineous apex.
Inflorescence to 7 cm long, lax, bipinnate on the basal half, the upper a polystichous-flowered spike;
Primary bracts like the scape-bracts, much shorter than the axillary branches;
Branches spreading, few flowered.
Floral bracts narrowly lance-ovate, spine-tipped, 7 mm long;
Flowers blooming from the middle of the inflorescence toward either end, sessile, 16 mm long.
Sepals strongly asymmetric, bilobed, 3 mm long without the 1.2 mm spine, half-connate, red toward base, elsewhere greenish flavous, all turning green, sparsely lepidote;
Petals yellow, each bearing 2 fimbriate scales;
Stamens included; pollen biporate;
Ovary subcylindric, 5 mm long, red;
placentae slightly supramedial;
ovules numerous, obtuse.
Type. S. Winkler 21 (holotype, HBR), epiphytic, ca 6 km from Santa Cruz do Sul on the road to Monte Negro and Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1974, flowered RB 9 Apr 1975.
Distribution. Known from the type collection only.
Updated 30/09/24
