Bromeliad Cultivar Register (343) 2011-09-25

*AECHMEA ‘Magnificent’*	Wurthmann E*	1964
cv. of fulgens v. discolor w/greatly enlarged inflorescence - Len Butt said, "The huge size of the berry head was quite distinctive and definitely the form once known as var. magnificum with an inflorescence three times as long as the type..".
Seed Parent: fulgens var. discolor
JBS 15:92; 31:248, Bromeliaceae 1988-4. Grown at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida as MSBG1987-0458A. Fulgens/Miniata Group