Tillandsia floribunda Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth
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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. Humboldt & Bonpland 3495 (holotype P, isotype B, B photo), Olleros, Piura, Peru, Aug 1802.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia coarctata Willd. ex C.Roemer & Schult., Platystachys floribunda (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Beer
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Description
Description - Plant stemless to short-caulescent and branched, flowering 2-5 dm high. Leaves suberect, many-ranked, 2-4 dm long, covered with subappressed scales; sheaths subtriangular, small and obscure, ferruginous-lepidote except the extreme base; blades filiform-subulate, 5 mm wide at base, angled, cinereous-lepidote. Scape erect, slender, shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts densely and tightly imbricate, filiform-laminate, densely cinereous-lepidote. Inflorescence simple or densely digitate from 2-5 or rarely 13 spikes, equaling or shorter than the leaves; primary bracts lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the spikes, submembranaceous, densely lepidote; spikes sessile, lanceolate to linear, acute, 2-3 cm, rarely to 6 cm long, 6-10 mm wide, complanate but with strongly convex sides, 5-7- or rarely to 13-flowered. Floral bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate, obtuse, 11-15 mm long, equaling the sepals, sharply carinate, slightly if at all incurved, coriaceous, even or faintly nerved, soon glabrous, lustrous; flowers subsessile. Sepals broadly elliptic, ca 13 mm long, posteriorly connate for 4 mm, carinate, coriaceous, even, glabrous; petals erect, blue or purple, the blades narrow, 7 mm long; stamens and pistil included.
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Distribution
Saxicolous and epiphytic in dry habitats, 900-2500 m alt, Ecuador, northern Peru.
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