Aechmea dichlamydea Baker

Aechmea dichlamydea Baker, Jour. Bot. 17: 133. 1879
Auhmea bracUala Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 592. as to description and most of the material cited 1864 Aechmea Nichollsii Baker. Kew Bull. 1892: 128. 1892.
Leaves 6-10 dm. long; sheaths subelliptic, conspicuous, up to 12 cm. vride, densely and minutely brown-appressed-lepidote; blades ligulate, acuminate to rounded-apiculate, 4-7 cm. wide, inconspicuously pale-punctulate-lepidote especially beneath, armed with fine acicular teeth up to 3 mm. long; scape erect (?), elongate, relatively slender, white-flocculose; scapebracts lanceolate, acute, entire, bright-red, the upper ones suberect to spreading; inflorescence amply compound, up to 5 dm. long, lax, cylindric to narrowly pyramidal, white-flocculose; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, reflexed, decreasing evenly in size; branches simple, ascending or spreading; stipes slender, the lower ones longer than the spikes, flattened dorsally, naked; spikes oblong, densely distichously 5-20-flowered, strongly complanate, up to S cm. long; rhachis winged and attached to the sides of the floral bracts; floral bracts spreading, uniform, cymbiform, broadly ovate, short-mucronate, 12-15 mm. long, slightly exceeding the ovary, entire, prominently nerved; flowers sessile, divergent to spreading; sepals strongly asymmetric, mucronate, up to 19 mm. long; petals erect, linear, inucronulate, 21 mm. long, yellow, bearing 2 dentate scales at the base; stamens included, the second series short-connate; ovary stout, 7 mm. long, enlarged in fruit, the epigynous tube large, crateriform; ovules borne near the top of the cell, numerous, short-caudate.
TT"E locality: Tobago.
Distribution: Montserrat, Guadeloupe, and Martinique; also in Tobago and Trinidad.

Aechmea dichlamydea is a species of bromeliad in the genus Aechmea. This species is native to Venezuela and to Trinidad and Tobago.