
GENUS
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thumb|right|Aechmea mertensii
Aechmea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae (subfamily Bromelioideae). The name comes from the Greek aichme, meaning "spear". Suggested pronunciations include and . Aechmea comprises eight subgenera and around 250 species distributed from Mexico through South America and the Caribbean. Most of the species in this genus are epiphytes.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).