Tillandsia tricolor Schltdl. & Cham.
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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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Description
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Description - Plant stemless, often propagating by scaly branching rhizomes. Leaves many in a dense rosette, about equaling or shorter than the inflorescence, the outer ones arched-recurving, densely and minutely appressed-lepidote throughout; sheaths elliptic-oblong, large; blades linear-triangular, long-attenuate, 1 cm wide at the base, glaucous-green. Scape erect, slender; scape-bracts erect, involute, densely imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper elliptic, acuminate, red. Inflorescence simple and distichous-flowered or laxly subdigitate from a few spikes; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, scarcely larger than the floral bracts; spikes erect or divergent, subsessile, linear-lanceolate in outline, acute, cuneate, densely many-flowered, 6-18 cm long, 18-25 mm wide, strongly complanate with flat sides. Floral bracts erect and very densely imbricate, ovate, acute, 3 cm long, only about 18 mm wide, much exceeding the sepals, six times as long as the internodes, sharply carinate, coriaceous, even, glabrous; flowers sessile. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 2 cm long, sharply carinate, coriaceous, even, glabrous, much connate posteriorly; petals tubular-erect, 7 cm long, ligulate, obtuse, violet; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, about equaling the floral bracts.