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Aechmea candida É.Morren ex Baker

White Bromeliad

Bromeliaceae · Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast +1 · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

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Summary

Aechmea candida, the white bromeliad, is a species of bromeliad in the genus Aechmea. This species is endemic to Brazil, where it can be found in Bahia, Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, from sea level up to 150 m elevation. It is an epiphyte found growing in rocky, moist and shady areas in the thick forests. It is threatened by agriculture, urban development and logging. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aechmea candida", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Aechmea

Aechmea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae. The name comes from the Greek aichme, meaning "spear". Suggested pronunciations include EEK-me-ə and eek-MEE-ə. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aechmea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an epiphyte, listed under the genus Aechmea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Aechmea in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 4 of the 5 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 5 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Diogo Luiz, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); Anastasiya Lvova, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Aechmea 91 in the reference

Aechmea amicorum Bromeliaceae Aechmea angustifolia Aechmea angustifolia Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Natan GabrielAechmea aquilega Aechmea aquilega Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Jason BergerAechmea bambusoides Aechmea bambusoides Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabricio Carvalho da SilvaAechmea blanchetiana Aechmea blanchetiana Orangeade Bromeliad Photo: CC BY, Facundo ChieffoAechmea blumenavii Aechmea blumenavii Bromeliaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAechmea bracteata Aechmea bracteata Vase bromeliad Photo: CC BY, Diego Maldonado de la TorreAechmea bromeliifolia Aechmea bromeliifolia Bromeliaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAechmea calyculata Aechmea calyculata Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaAechmea capixabae Aechmea capixabae Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Martin Vallejos Aechmea cariocae Bromeliaceae Aechmea castelnavii Aechmea castelnavii Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens Riella all 92 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Ortgiesia candida. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
É.Morren ex Baker
Native to
Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Brazil South
Wild records
5 in range · 5 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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