Tillandsia duratii Vis.
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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 caulescent, flowering from 2 dm to over 1 m; roots present at first; stem stout, curved, simple, to 3 dm long. Leaves densely polystichous along the stem, covered with appressed or subappressed coarse cinereous scales; sheaths distinct, broadly ovate, ca 2 cm long; blades very narrowly triangular, involute-subulate, 1-2 cm wide, spirally recurved around tree branches, rigid, thick, pungent. Scape erect, elongate, stout, glabrous; scape-bracts closely imbricate, elliptic, densely cinereous-lepidote, the lower linear-laminate, the upper apiculate. Inflorescence 2-3-pinnate, 6-60 cm long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, erect and enfolding the bracteate sterile bases of the branches; branches strict to spreading or decurved; spikes lanceolate to linear, complanate. Floral bracts erect, ovate or elliptic, to 14 mm long, slightly shorter to slightly longer than the sepals, ecarinate; flowers subsessile, fragrant. Sepals ovate or elliptic, subobtuse, unequally short-connate, to 14 mm long, coriaceous, even, glabrous; petals 25 mm long, the blades spreading, suborbicular, usually blue; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil.