Tillandsia didisticha (E.Morren) Baker

  • 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 didisticha (E.Morren) Baker

  • Type

    Type. Jacob Makoy Hortus at Liege s n (LG ? n v), Brazil, flowered 1880.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia purpurea Griseb., Anoplophytum didistichum E.Morren, Tillandsia oranensis Baker, Tillandsia crassifolia Baker, Tillandsia goyazensis Mez, Guzmania complanata Wittm.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, flowering 25-35 cm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, 1-3 dm long; sheaths obscure, flat, glabrous toward base; blades very narrowly triangular, long-attenuate, channeled, 6-20 mm wide, covered with subappressed cinereous scales. Scape erect, slender; scape-bracts imbricate and covering the scape, elliptic, acute, densely lepidote. Inflorescence bipinnate or at the base subtripinnate, dense, fan-shaped with all the spikes in one plane, 6-14 cm long, broad; primary bracts erect, nearly imbricate, like the scape-bracts, much shorter than the spikes; spikes curved-spreading from an erect base, narrowly lanceolate, 3-8 cm long, strongly complanate, the sterile base with imbricate reduced bracts. Floral bracts imbricate and covering the rhachis, ovate, acute, 11-15 mm long, equaling the sepals, carinate, papyraceous, strongly nerved, usually densely cinereous-lepidote but sometimes almost glabrous; flowers subsessile. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 11 mm long, the posterior carinate and slightly connate; petals 15-20 mm long, white; stamens and pistil included, the filaments plicate.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in woods and sometimes saxicolous, 500-1440 m alt, Peru (?), Bolivia, southwestern Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina. PERU (?). Without exact locality, Haenke s n (M).

    Peru South America| Bolivia South America| Beni Bolivia South America| La Paz Bolivia South America| Yungas Bolivia South America| Cochabamba Bolivia South America| Santa Cruz Bolivia South America| Mato Grosso Brazil South America| Paraguay South America| Argentina South America| Jujuy Argentina South America| Salta Argentina South America| Tucuman Argentina South America|