Tillandsia baileyi Rose ex Small

  • 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 baileyi Rose ex Small

  • Type

    Type. V. Bailey ("26") 226 (holotype US), San Ignacio Ranch, Kenedy County (formerly Cameron County), Texas, United States, 8 May 1900.

  • Description

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    Description - Plant stemless, flowering 2-4 dm high, growing in dense masses. Leaves several in a bulbous rosette, equaling or exceeding the inflorescence, densely appressed-cinereous-lepidote throughout; sheaths ovate, relatively small, forming an ovoid pseudobulb 2-5 cm long, passing gradually into the blades, often conspicuously ciliate-lepidote; blades contorted, linear, involute-subulate, attenuate, 5 mm in diameter at base. Scape erect or ascending, 2 mm in diameter, cinereous-lepidote; scape-bracts like the leaves but smaller and with narrow sheaths which are often shorter than the upper internodes. Inflorescence simple or of 2-4 spikes; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the axillary spike; spikes linear, 4-10 cm long, 12 mm wide, subdensely 6-17-flowered, complanate, appressed-cinereous-lepidote. Floral bracts suberect, loosely imbricate, ovate, acute, 2 cm long, exceeding the sepals, about three times as long as the internodes, ecarinate, subchartaceous, prominently nerved, roseate; flowers subsessile. Sepals lanceolate, acute, to 16 mm long, chartaceous, prominently nerved, cinereous-lepidote, short-connate posteriorly; petals ligulate, 3 cm long, purple; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, 4 cm long.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in dry thickets, woods and forest, to 1080 m alt, southernmost Texas to Nicaragua.

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