Tillandsia peiranoi A.Cast.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Peirano s n (holotype LIL, GH photo, isotype BA), Quebrada de Las Conchas, Guachipas, Salta, Argentina, 27 Nov 1933.
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Description
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Description - Plant caulescent, flowering 20 cm long; stem simple or few-branched, 10 cm long; roots present. Leaves densely polystichous, 2-5 cm long, covered with cinereous subappressed scales; sheaths broadly ovate, large but obscure, many-nerved with broad thin margins; blades erect to recurving, more or less contorted, narrowly triangular, pungent, 5 mm wide, nerved. Scape terminal, erect, very slender, glabrous; scape-bracts laxly imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate, thin, nerved, lepidote. Inflorescence simple or with 1-2 small suberect lateral branches; primary bracts like the floral bracts, much shorter than the spikes; terminal spike linear, 6 cm long, 6-flowered; rhachis slender, flexuous. Floral bracts erect, slightly less than twice as long as the internodes and exposing most of the rhachis, elliptic, 12 mm long, slightly shorter than the sepals, thin, nerved, ecarinate, glabrous; pedicels short. Sepals free, elliptic, acute, 10-12 mm long, thin, centrally nerved with broad nerveless margins, glabrous, the posterior carinate; petals 16 mm long, pale blue to nearly white, the blade suborbicular; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil; anthers linear, 2.5 mm long. Capsule prismatic, beaked, 15 mm long, 5 mm in diameter.
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Distribution
Known from the type locality only.
Argentina South America| Salta Argentina South America|