Tillandsia latifolia Meyen
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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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Description
Description - Plant usually caulescent, very variable, flowering to 6 dm high, mostly rootless; stem prostrate, often branched. Leaves to 2 dm long, covered with appressed cinereous scales; sheaths scarcely distinct; blades narrowly triangular, filiform-attenuate, 30 mm wide, usually spreading or recurved. Scape erect shorter or longer than the leaves but always distinct, stout; scape-bracts imbricate, cinereous-lepidote, bearing long slender spreading or recurved blades. Inflorescence bipinnate or rarely simple, dense with erect spikes or lax with spreading spikes, sometimes viviparous; primary bracts like the scape-bracts but merely acute or apiculate, usually shorter than the spikes; spikes subsessile, lanceolate, 6-12-flowered. Floral bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate, acute, 15-23 mm long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, carinate, coriaceous, even or nearly so, cinereous-lepidote generally becoming glabrous with age; flowers subsessile. Sepals 12-20 mm long, nearly even, sparsely lepidote, connate for 8 mm and carinate posteriorly; petal-blades to 7 mm long, narrow, acute; stamens included; filaments plicate; anthers linear, obtuse. Capsule prismatic, acute.