Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.
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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 - Stems densely massed, simple or few-branched, 1-10 cm. long, typically much shorter than the leaves but occasionally about equaling them; roots present; loaves 3-17 cm. long, covered with cinereous or ferruginous subsprcading scales, sheaths elliptic-ovate, thin, many-nerved with a broad hyaline nerveless margin, imbricate, blades typically recurved, sometimes only spreading or even erect, linear, terete, 0.5-2 mm. in diameter, rather soft with a weak point; scape up to 13 cm. long, about 0.5 mm, in diameter; scape-bracts linear-lanceolate, lepidote, 1 or very rarely 2 immediately below the inflorescence, sometimes one next the inflorescence and one remote; inflorescence typically 1-2-flowered or rarely up to 5-flowered, dense; floral bracts like the scape-bracts but smaller, typically equaling or exceeding the sepals but often distinctly shorter, several-nerved densely lepidote; flowers erect, subsessile; sepals lanceolate, usually acute, 4-9 mm. long, thin, with 3 or more prominent nerves; petals narrow, pale violet or white; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil; capsule slenderly cylindric, abruptly short-beaked, up to 3 cm, long.