Tillandsia juncea (Ruiz & Pav.) Poir.

  • 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 juncea (Ruiz & Pav.) Poir.

  • Type

    Type. Ruiz & Pavon s n (MA n v), Muna, Huanuco, Peru.

  • Synonyms

    Bonapartea juncea Ruiz & Pav., Misandra juncea (Ruiz & Pav.) F.Dietr., Acanthospora juncea (Ruiz & Pav.) Spreng., Tillandsia quadrangularis Martens & Galeotti, Tillandsia pulchra J.M.Hook, Platystachys juncea (Ruiz & Pav.) Beer, Tillandsia juncifolia Regel, Tillandsia setacea Baker

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, often propagating by scaly branching rhizomes, 2-4 dm high. Leaves numerous in a dense fasciculate rosette, usually about equaling the inflorescence or shorter, densely and minutely subappressed-lepidote throughout; sheaths triangular-ovate, conspicuous, ferruginous; blades linear-subulate, filiform-attenuate. Scape erect or ascending, stout; scape-bracts erect, involute, densely imbricate, lance-elliptic, filiform-laminate, subchartaceous, covered with pale appressed scales. Inflorescence very densely digitate from a few spikes or sometimes reduced to a single densely polystichous-flowered spike, ovoid, rarely more than 7 cm long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, subinvolucrate below the inflorescence, their sheaths slightly shorter than the lower axillary spikes, their blades mostly exceeding them; spikes sessile, elliptic or lanceolate in outline, acute, to 4 cm long, stout, slightly complanate. Floral bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate, broadly acute or obtuse, exceeding the sepals, carinate in the distichous-flowered spikes, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, nearly or quite even, densely lepidote, often red; flowers subsessile. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 15-20 mm long, coriaceous, even glabrous or sparsely lepidote, carinate and much connate posteriorly; petals tubular-erect, ligulate, acute, to 4 cm long, violet; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 25-35 mm long.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial and epiphytic, 5-2416 m alt, Mexico and the Greater Antilles to Bolivia.

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