Tillandsia caput-medusae E.Morren

  • 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 caput-medusae E.Morren

  • Type

    Type. Morren Icon (K). No plant material preserved apparently.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia langlassei Poiss. & Menet

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, flowering 15-25(-40) cm high. Leaves often exceeding the inflorescence, covered with coarse pale slightly spreading scales; sheaths broadly ovate or elliptic, strongly inflated, forming an ovoid pseudobulb, merging gradually into the blades; blades linear-triangular, attenuate, involute-subulate, usually much contorted, to 15 mm wide. Scape erect or ascending, slender; scape-bracts densely imbricate, foliaceous. Inflorescence simple or digitately compound from 2-6 spikes; primary bracts broadly ovate, usually smaller than the floral bracts and with little or no blade, lepidote; spikes suberect to spreading, often curved, linear-lanceolate, acute, to 18 cm long, 6-12-flowered with several reduced sterile bracts at base; rhachis nearly straight, slender, angled, glabrous. Floral bracts suberect or divergent, imbricate, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse but the apex often inrolled and appearing acute, ecarinate, to 2 cm long, equaling or slightly exceeding the sepals, barely more than twice as long as the internodes and exposing the rhachis, chartaceous, prominently nerved, nearly or quite glabrous, red, pink, and green; flowers subsessile. Sepals oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, prominently nerved, glabrous, the posterior ones somewhat connate; petals linear, erect, 3-1 cm long, violet; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, 3-4 cm long.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic, 40-2400 m alt, Mexico, Central America.

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