Tillandsia bandensis 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 bandensis Baker

  • Type

    Type. Tweedie s n (holotype K, GH photo), without exact locality, Uruguay.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia quadriflora Baker, Tillandsia recurvata var. majuscula Mez in Mart., Tillandsia bandensis var. intermedia Hassl., Tillandsia pilosa L.B.Sm.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant 1-2 dm long; roots present; stem much branched with the branching largely in a single plane, 4-6 cm long. Leaves densely distichous, 5-7 cm long, densely pruinose- or tomentose-lepidote, cinereous to fuscous; sheaths broadly ovate, 1 cm long, glabrous except for the upper half outside; blades suberect to spreading, linear-subulate, involute, long-attenuate, 1-2 mm in diameter. Scape terminal, erect or decurved, to 9 cm long, ca 0.5 mm in diameter, sulcate, lepidote at least below; scape-bracts 1-2, remote, much shorter than the internodes, elliptic, the upper acute or apiculate and usually glabrous, the lower usually filiform-laminate and appressed-lepidote. Inflorescence always simple and distichous-flowered, linear-lanceolate, 2-3 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, 2-4-flowered; rhachis slightly flexuous, very slender, excavated next the flowers, glabrous. Floral bracts not at all imbricate, equaling or slightly longer than the internodes, ovate-elliptic, acute, more or less nerved, 9-12 mm long, the lower ones equaling or somewhat shorter than the sepals and sometimes sparsely lepidote, the upper ones much shorter than the sepals and glabrous; flowers erect, appressed to the rhachis; pedicels very short, obconic. Sepals subelliptic, acute, 8-10 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, thin, nerved, glabrous, equally subfree; petals 15-16 mm long, claw narrow, blade broadly elliptic or obovate, 5 mm long, 6 mm wide, blue or violet; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil, anthers linear; ovary subprismatic, passing gradually into the short style. Capsule cylindric, ca 2 cm long.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in dry woods, 300-2000 m alt, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.

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