Aechmea chantinii(Carrière) Baker

WFO wfo-0000337538 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 4 separate observations

Aechmea chantinii, photographed by Zoltán Stekkelpak
fig. a Zoltán Stekkelpak, CC0 1.0 / 2021-11-21 / obs. 170340850
Aechmea chantinii, photographed by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández
fig. b Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58254764
Aechmea chantinii, photographed by Joseph Morlan
fig. c Joseph Morlan, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 42629541
Aechmea chantinii, photographed by Leo Arias
fig. d Leo Arias, CC0 1.0 / obs. 84873783

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Aechmea chantinii is native: Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Brazil NorthColombiaEcuadorPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Aechmea chantinii, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Brazil North BZN SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 89 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.5 °C 21.8 °C 22.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.9 °C 29.6 °C 29.9 °C
Annual rainfall 1,512 mm 3,255 mm 3,411 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 240 mm 624 mm 664 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 89 research-grade observations of Aechmea chantinii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aechmea amazonica Ule
  • Aechmea chantinii f. amazonica (Ule) H.Luther
  • Aechmea chantinii f. chantinii
  • Billbergia chantini Carrière
  • Billbergia chantinii Carrière
  • Platyaechmea chantinii (Carrière) L.B.Sm. & W.J.Kress

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.