Tillandsia lorentziana Griseb.

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tillandsia lorentziana Griseb.

  • Type

    Type. Lorentz 69 (holotype B, F photo 11511; isotype CORD), Las Penas, Arroyo Valley, Cordoba, Argentina, Feb 1871.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia lorentzii André, Tillandsia lorentziana var. simplex Kuntze

  • Description

    Description - Plant caulescent, flowering 2-7 dm high; stem short and stout but distinct. Leaves polystichous along the stem, 2-4 dm long; sheaths obscure, flat; blades very narrowly triangular, long-attenuate, to 20 mm wide, covered with spreading cinereous or brownish scales, often carinate, the inner suberect, the outer reflexed. Scape erect, slender; scape-bracts imbricate and usually covering the scape, the lower foliaceous, the upper lanceolate, acute, densely lepidote. Inflorescence usually bipinnate or simple, lax when compound, usually 12-15 cm long with 4-8 spikes; axes glabrous; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the spikes; spikes divergent, straight, oblong-lanceolate, 6 cm long, 15 mm wide, strongly complanate, bracts of the sterile base as large as the floral bracts; rhachis flexuous, slender, angled, glabrous. Floral bracts erect or suberect, imbricate but so narrow as to expose the rhachis, acute, mostly 20-25 mm long, slightly exceeding the sepals, ecarinate, faintly nerved, papyraceous, glabrous or sparsely lepidote; pedicels short. Sepals subfree, oblong, acute, 16-18 mm long, glabrous, the posterior carinate; petals 35 mm long, white, the blades erect, elliptic, obtuse; stamens and pistil included, the filaments plicate.

  • Distribution

    Saxicolous and epiphytic, 700-2600 m alt. Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.

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