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Aechmea mulfordii L.B.Sm.

Bromeliaceae · Brazil Northeast

No habitat climate
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Summary

Aechmea mulfordii, the living vase bromelia, is native to the states of Pernambuco and Bahia in eastern Brazil. Most of the other plants in this genus are epiphytic, which means that they live up in the branches of the trees and exist mainly on the moisture and nutrients they obtain from the air. However, Aechmea mulfordii is a large terrestrial plant, growing near the sea level on sand dunes.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aechmea mulfordii", 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

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 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; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Northeast · 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).
Map marker-7.85, -35.003 · in the densest population, 3 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 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. 3 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 3 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: David J. Stang, 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 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 Gravisia fosteriana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Bromeliaceae
Described by
L.B.Sm.
Native to
Brazil Northeast
Wild records
3 in range · 3 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; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-213 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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