Tillandsia arequitae Mez
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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. André K-320 (holotype K; isotypes F, GH, NY), Cerro de Arequita, Minas, Lavalleja, Uruguay, 1890.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia xiphioides var. arequitae André
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Description
Description - Plant flowering to 4 dm high, often subpulvinate; roots present; stem conspicuous, usually branching several times, decumbent for most of its length, ends of the branches ascending. Leaves many, erect to recurved, densely polystichous, not secund, to 20 cm long, but usually about 10 cm, covered with spreading cinereous scales; sheaths obscure, densely imbricate, making the stem appear very stout; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate to the abruptly acute pungent apex, 15 mm wide, stout, rigid, carinate below, complicate toward apex. Scape erect, conspicuous, ca 1 dm long, usually exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts densely imbricate, narrowly elliptic, acute, greenish stramineous, at least the lower ones lepidote. Inflorescence lanceolate, acute, complanate, to 10 cm long, densely 6-12-flowered; rhachis flexuous, angled, narrowly alate, glabrous. Floral bracts densely imbricate and concealing the rhachis, 3 times as long as the internodes, narrowly triangular-ovate, acute, 25-40 mm long, exceeding the sepals, rather thin, glabrous, slightly nerved, greenish with stramineous nerveless margins, ecarinate; flowers subsessile. Sepals linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 21 mm long, submembranaceous, glabrous, equal, free; petals ca 5 cm long, white, odorless, the claw linear, blade spreading, suborbicular, ca 18 mm wide, obscurely crenate or entire; stamens elongate, barely included or exserted from the throat of the corolla, shorter than the pistil; anthers linear, 7 mm long; ovary prismatic.
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Distribution
Saxicolous and epiphytic, southeastern Uruguay.
Uruguay South America| Lavalleja Uruguay South America|