Tillandsia brachycaulos Schltdl.
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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; leaves subrosulate, numerous, spreading to arching-decurved, often secund, 12-26 cm long, much exceeding the inflorescence, densely and finely appressed-lepidote; sheaths distinct, ovate, 3-5 cm long, brown-lepidote; blades linear, filiform-attenuate, 8-20 mm wide, flat or involute. Scape short to none, erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts foliaceous, very densely imbricate, equaling or exceeding the inflorescence. Inflorescence compound at base or appearing simple and polystichous-flowered by the reduction of the spikes to a single flower each, densely capitate or subcorymbose, few-flowered; primary bracts like the scape-bracts with long foliaceous blades many times exceeding the axillary spikes; spikes with a few sterile bracts at base. Floral bracts lanceolate or oblong, obtuse, about equaling the sepals, membranaceous, prominently nerved, glabrous; flowers erect, sessile. Sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 12-17 mm long, membranaceous, free or the posterior ones much connate even in the same spike; petals linear, 5-7 cm long, tubular-erect, violet; stamens and pistil exserted. Capsule cylindric, acute, 4 cm long.