Aechmea polyantha

{{Short description|Species of bromeliad}}

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| image = Aechmea polyantha Echmea 2019-05-03 01.jpg

| genus = Aechmea

| species = polyantha

| authority = E.Pereira & Reitz

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Aechmea polyantha is a species of epiphytic and lithophytic South American bromeliad.{{cite POWO |id=5569-2 |title=Aechmea polyantha |access-date=22 March 2024}}{{Cite journal |last1=Leroy |first1=Céline |last2=Maes |first2=Arthur QuyManh |last3=Louisanna |first3=Eliane |last4=Schimann |first4=Heidy |last5=Séjalon-Delmas |first5=Nathalie |date= 2021|title=Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity of root-associated fungi in bromeliads: effects of host identity, life forms and nutritional modes |url=https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17288 |journal=New Phytologist |language=en |volume=231 |issue=3 |pages=1195–1209 |doi=10.1111/nph.17288 |pmid=33605460 |issn=0028-646X}} 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.{{Cite journal |last=Moonen |first=Joep |date=2016 |title=A Bromeliad 'Hotspot' in French Guiana |journal=J. Bromeliad Soc |volume=63 |pages=180–230}}