Aechmea polyantha

Aechmea polyantha is a species of epiphytic and lithophytic South American bromeliad.^[1][2] They grow in the upper canopy of forests in the Brazilian Amazon and in French Guiana. They have been recorded growing on bare granite, where they form mats of roots and microorganisms such as algae, although they remain small there; larger ones stay around clumps of trees.^[3]

Aechmea polyantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Bromeliaceae
Genus:	Aechmea
Species:	A. polyantha
Binomial name
Aechmea polyantha E.Pereira & Reitz