Tillandsia incarnata Kunth

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tillandsia incarnata Kunth

  • Type

    Type. Humboldt & Bonpland s n (holotype B, F photo 11505), "Guallabamba et prope Hambato Quitensium," Pichincha, Ecuador, 1802.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia striata Willd. ex Schult.f., Tillandsia brevifolia Baker

  • Description

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    Description - Plants in dense tangled masses; stem branching, its branches to 75 cm long; roots present on young plants. Leaves densely polystichous, 8-24 cm long, covered with appressed or slightly spreading scales; sheaths ovate, indistinct, sometimes tinged with brown; blades suberect to spreading, narrowly triangular, filiform-attenuate, usually involute toward apex. Scape terminal, straight or slightly curved, about 2 mm in diameter, 1-4 dm long, lepidote or glabrous; scape-bracts densely imbricate, elliptic, chartaceous, roseate, densely cinereous-lepidote, the lower with long filiform blades, the upper acute or apiculate. Inflorescence simple or rarely digitate from a few spikes; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, shorter than the spikes; spikes lanceolate or linear, acute, 5-12 cm long, complanate, subdensely 5-18-flowered; rhachis nearly straight, sharply quadrangular, lepidote. Floral bracts imbricate or the lowest slightly divergent, elliptic, apiculate, 20-25 mm long, exceeding the sepals, ecarinate, chartaceous, sulcate, roseate, densely lepidote; flowers subsessile. Sepals lance-elliptic, acute, about 14 mm long, sulcate, lepidote, posteriorly carinate and connate; petals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 20-25 mm long, erect or nearly so, rose; stamens included, filaments dilated above and transversely plicate. Capsule subprismatic, to 25 mm long.

  • Common Names

    Huicundo

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial, saxicolous, and epiphytic in sunny habitats, 500-3200 m alt, Colombia, Ecuador.

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