Tillandsia juncea (Ruiz & Pav.) Poir.
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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 2-4 dm. high, often bearing scaly branching rhizomes; leaves many in a dense fasciculate rosette, usually equaling the inflorescence or shorter, densely subappressed-lepidote, the sheaths ferruginous; scape erect or ascending, stout; scape-bracts densely imbricate, lance-elliptic, acuminate, filiform-laminate, subchartaceous, densely pale-lepidote; inflorescence densely digitate from a few spikes or sometimes reduced to a single densely polystichous-flowered spike, ovoid, rarely over 7 cm. long; primary bracts like the upper scapebracts, subinvolucrate below the inflorescence, their sheaths slightly shorter than the lower spikes, their blades mostly exceeding them; spikes sessile, elliptic or lanceolate, acute, to 4 cm. long, stout, slightly complanate; floral bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate, exceeding the sepals, carlnate in the distichous-flowered spikes, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, nearly or quite even, densely lepidote, often red; flowers subsessile; sepals lanceolate, acute, 15-20 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely lepidote, the posterior ones much connate; petals tubular-erect, to 4 cm. long, violet; stamens exserted; capsule slenderly cylindric, 25-35 mm. long.