Tillandsia festucoides Brongn. ex Mez

  • 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 festucoides Brongn. ex Mez

  • Type

    Type. Brongniart in Paris Hortus s n (holotype P, GH photo), Mexico (?).

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia caricifolia E.Morren ex Mez

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, 20-55 cm high. Leaves many in a dense fasciculate rosette, often exceeding the inflorescence, densely and minutely appressed-lepidote throughout; sheaths narrowly subtriangular, conspicuous, castaneous or ferruginous; blades linear-subulate, green. Scape erect or ascending, usually slender; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper subelliptic, filiform-laminate, chartaceous, often bright-red. Inflorescence bipinnate, densely digitate, subellipsoid or broadly pyramidal after anthesis, to 17 cm long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts but the higher ones not laminate, at least their sheaths much shorter than the axillary branches; spiciform racemes arching-recurved especially after anthesis, linear in outline, 3-9 cm long, complanate; rhachis slender, often strongly flexuous. Floral bracts erect, barely imbricate, lance-ovate, acute, 17-22 mm long, exceeding the sepals, slightly more than twice as long as the internodes, carinate and often incurved toward apex, subcoriaceous, prominently nerved in most specimens, pale-appressed-lepidote to glabrous, green or red; flowers subsessile. Sepals lanceolate, acute or obtuse, to 17 mm long, coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely lepidote, carinate and connate posteriorly for 6-8 mm; petals tubular-erect, linear, 25-30 mm long, purple; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 25-30 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in forest, 25-1000 m alt, Florida (according to Mez but not verified), Greater Antilles, Mexico, Central America. There is a specimen purporting to come from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, but the label proves to have been falsified.

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