Tillandsia makoyana 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 makoyana Baker

  • Type

    Type. E. Morren Icon (holotype K, "from a plant flowered by M. Jacob-Makoy & Co., at Liege, in 1879.").

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia cucaensis Wittm.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, 5-15 dm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, to 65 cm long, densely and finely appressed-cinereous-lepidote throughout; sheaths elliptic-ovate, 12 cm long, castaneous; blades linear-triangular, caudate-attenuate, 3-5 cm wide. Scape erect, stout, from slightly shorter than to exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts erect, the lower ones lanceolate, linear-laminate, imbricate, the upper ones ovate-lanceolate, acute, sometimes remote. Inflorescence simple to amply bipinnate, to 4 dm long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, scarcely larger than the floral bracts, enfolding the lower half of the sterile base of the axillary branch; spiciform racemes to 24 cm long, laxly flowered; rhachis strongly undulate, stout, flattened next the flowers, glabrous. Floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, shorter than the sepals, about equaling the internodes, coriaceous with a hyaline margin, prominently nerved, ecarinate; flowers erect and closely appressed to the rhachis; pedicels up to 5 mm long. Sepals narrowly elliptic or obovate, obtuse, 25-30 mm long, very short-connate, coriaceous, even except near the margin, glabrous outside, brown-punctulate-lepidote inside; petals tubular-erect, 5 cm long, violet or green; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 6-8 cm long.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in oak and pine forest, 50-1950 m alt, southern Mexico to Costa Rica.

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