Tillandsia landbeckii Phil.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type. Landbeck s n (holotype SGO, isotypes G, GH, US), Illapel, Coquimbo, Chile, Dec 1862.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 3 dm long; stems densely massed, usually much branched, to 2 dm long, slender; roots present in small specimens, but apparently often lost in later development. Leaves laxly distichous, 6-12 cm long, densely subpruinose-lepidote with fine cinereous scales; sheaths elliptic, thin, few-nerved, densely lepidote except at the extreme base, 10-15 mm long, laxly imbricate making the stem appear 2-A mm thick; blades more or less spreading, linear, terete, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, soft with a weak point. Scape terminal, erect, always prominent, to 10 cm long, 1 mm or less in diameter, densely cinereous-lepidote; scape-bracts 2 or 3, immediately below the inflorescence, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or caudate-appendaged, densely lepidote. Inflorescence 1-2-flowered. Floral bracts like the scape-bracts but smaller, about equaling the sepals, pink, drying violet; flowers subsessile, the second when present very close to the first. Sepals elliptic, 10 mm long, thin, nerved, sparsely lepidote, equally subfree; petals ligulate, obtuse, yellow when dry; stamens deeply included, slightly exceeding the pistil; ovary about as long as the style. Capsule slenderly cylindric, abruptly short-beaked, 22 mm long.
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Distribution
Terrestrial and epiphytic, arid coastal regions, 300-1500 m alt, Ecuador (?), Peru, northern Chile.
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