Tillandsia flabellata Baker
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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, 2-3 dm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, arched, spreading, inconspicuously punctulate-lepidote above, densely appressed-cinereous-lepidote below; sheaths broadly ovate, 4-6 cm long, distinct; blades narrowly triangular, long-attenuate, flat, 17 mm wide. Scape erect, very short and so hidden by the rosette that the spikes look like separate simple inflorescences, slender; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous, very large. Inflorescence digitate from 3-8 spikes; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, their sheaths many times shorter than the axillary spikes, their blades nearly equaling them; spikes spreading to reflexed, very narrowly clavate, acute, strongly complanate, 15-22 cm long, the lower half or two thirds sterile and covered by imbricate bracts, these decreasing evenly in size from the floral bracts down, the fertile part linear-lanceolate, 4-9 cm long, 10-15 mm wide; rhachis straight, slender, angled, sulcate, glabrous. Floral bracts erect, densely imbricate and concealing the rhachis at anthesis, three to four times as long as the internodes, lanceolate, acuminate, straight, sharply carinate, 25-35 mm long, 9 mm wide, chartaceous, strongly nerved, sparsely appressed-lepidote before anthesis but soon glabrous; flowers subsessile. Sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 15 mm long, thin, even or medianly nerved, glabrous, free, the posterior carinate; petals 4 cm long, violet; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule cylindric, short-beaked, 25 mm long.