Tillandsia flexuosa Sw.
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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 - Plant 2-15 dm. high; leaves 10-20 in a dense often subbulbous rosette, 2-5 dm. long, covered with pale appressed scales, usually marked with broad white transverse bands, the outer bladeless, squamiform, sheaths ovate, very large but merging with the blade, blades about 25 mm. wide, acuminate, then abruptly acute, curved, stiff; scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, tubular-involute, elliptic, lepidote, at least the upper ones shorter than the internodes; inflorescence simple or very laxly bipinnate; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the sterile bases of the branches; branches ascending, to 4 dm. long; rhachis angled, glabrous; floral bracts elliptic, acute, 2-3 cm. long, equaling or shorter than the sepals, ecarinate, chartaceous, nerved, lepidote; pedicels to 7 mm. long; sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 2-3 cm. long, free, sparsely lepidote or glabrous; petals tubular-erect, to 4 cm. long, white, rose, or purple; stamens exserted; capsule slenderly cylindric, to 7 cm. long.