Tillandsia wagneriana L.B.Sm.
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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. L. Moore 310 (holotype US), vicinity of Iquitos, Loreto, Peru, cultivated D. Barry, Jr.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 4 dm high. Leaves ca. 4 dm long, covered with fine pale appressed scales; sheaths elliptic, 8 cm long, castaneous; blades ligulate, acute, 35 mm wide, flat, becoming more or less glabrous above. Scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, much exceeding the internodes but not wholly covering the scape, broadly ovate, acuminate. Inflorescence laxly bipinnate, 16 cm long; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, barely exceeding the short bracteate sterile bases of the branches; spikes divergent, linear-lanceolate, acute, to 10 cm long, 2 cm wide, strongly complanate, densely many-flowered or sublax at base. Floral bracts ovate, acute, to 23 mm long, slightly exceeding the sepals, carinate and strongly incurved at apex, thin, nerved when dry, glabrous, pink (! Moore); flowers subsessile. Sepals equally very short-connate, lance-oblong, acute, 21 mm long, the posterior carinate; petals blue, the blades spreading, broadly elliptic, 9 mm long; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil.
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Distribution
To 800 m alt, northeastern Peru.
Peru South America| Amazonas Peru South America|