Tillandsia valenzuelana A.Rich.
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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 2-6 dm. high; leaves many in a utriculate rosette, to 4 dm. long, the outer reduced to scalelike sheaths, covered with fine appressed cinereous scales, sometimes becoming glabrous above, sheaths large, ovate, blades acuminate, usually flat, 10-25 mm. wide; scape erect or ascending, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts imbricate, ovate, inflated, cinereous-lepidote, pink or red, fading to olivaceous, at least the lower ones with linear foliaceous blades; infloresceace simple or pinnately compound from a few spikes; axes slender, soon glabrous; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, their sheaths much shorter than the spikes but their blades sometimes exceeding the lower ones; spikes divergent, oblong, acute, complanate, often rather lax, 6-17-flowered, especially the terminal spike with sterile bracts at the base, 5-20 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide; rhachis angled, slightly flexuous; floral bracts erect or suberect, usually 2-3 times as long as the internodes but exposing the rhachis, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, 2 cm. long, much exceeding the sepals, nerved, subglabrous, pink or red, sometimes carinate toward the apex; flowers subsessile; sepals oblong, obtuse, somewhat connate posteriorly; petals linear, 3 cm. long, lilac or violet; stamens sexserted; capsule prismatic, 3 cm. long.