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Aechmea gigantea (É.Morren) Baker

Bromeliaceae · Venezuela · listed by its genus as an epiphyte

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Aechmea gigantea is a plant species in the genus Aechmea. This species is endemic to Venezuela.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aechmea gigantea", 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 “perennial or 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 “perennial or 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: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeVenezuela · 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“perennial or epiphyte” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

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 candida Aechmea candida White Bromeliad Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizAechmea capixabae Aechmea capixabae Bromeliaceae Photo: CC BY, Martin Vallejos Aechmea cariocae Bromeliaceae all 92 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Billbergia gigantea; Hoplophytum giganteum. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
(É.Morren) Baker
Native to
Venezuela
Wild records
none in range

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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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.

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