Tillandsia incarnata Kunth
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - In dense tangled masses; stem branching, its branches to 75 cm. long; roots present on young plants; leaves densely polystichous, 8-24 cm. long, covered with appressed or slightly spreading scales, sheaths ovate, indistinct, sometimes tinged with brown, blades suberect to spreading, narrowly triangular, filiform-acuminate, usually involute toward apex; scape terminal, straight or slightly curved, about 2 mm. in diameter, 1-4 dm. long, lepidote or glabrous; scapebracts densely imbricate, elliptic, chartaceous, roseate, densely cinereous-lepidote, the lower with long filiform blades, the upper acute or apiculate; inflorescence simple or rarely digitate from a few spikes; primary bracts like the scape-bracts; spikes lanceolate or linear, acute, 5-12 cm. long, complanatc, 5-18-flowered; rhachis nearly straight, sharply quadrangular, lepidote; floral bracts imbricate or the lowest slightly divergent, elliptic, apiculate, 20-25 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, ecarinate, chartaceous, sulcate, roseate, densely lepidote ; flowers subsessile; sepals lance-elliptic, acute, carinate, sulcate, posteriorly connate; petals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 20-25 mm. long, erect or nearly so, rose; stamens included, filaments dilated above and transversely plicate; capsule subprismatic, to 25 mm. long.