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genus Acanthostachys Klotzsch

(subfam. Bromelioideae)

Publ: Icon. Pl. Rar. 1: 21. t. 9 (1841)

Type: Hohenbergia strobilacea SCHULTES fil. in J. J. ROEMER, J. A. SCHULTES und J. H. SCHULTES fil., Caroli a Linne Syst. veg. sec. class. ord. gen. spec., Vol. VII/2 p. 1252, Stuttgart 1830.

Number of species: 3

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Genus Notes:

in Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Ic. pl. rar. 1(2): 21. 15-21 Nov 1840 (‘1841’).
Type Hohenbergia strobilacea Schult. & Schult.f. in Roem. & Schult., Syst. veg. 7(2): 1252. Oct-Dec. 1830. Acanthostachys strobilacea (Schult. & Schult.f.) Klotzsch in Link, Klotzsch & Otto, Ic. pl. rar. 1(2): 21. 15-21 Nov 1840 (‘1841’). Currently recognized as a monospecific genus in the subfam. Bromelioideae. From the Greek akanthos, a prickly plant, and stachys, spike.
(from Grant & Zijlstra 1998)