Tillandsia cacticola 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. Sandeman 4325 (holotype K, US photo), Huancabamba, Piura, Peru, Aug 1943.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 15 cm and much higher. Leaves many, spreading, 8 cm long, covered with coarse subspreading cinereous scales; sheaths indistinct; blades linear-triangular, subulate-attenuate, 1 cm wide. Scape slender, curved; scape-bracts imbricate, closely involute about the scape, densely lepidote, caudate at apex. Inflorescence digitate from 3-12 spikes; primary bracts elliptic, acute, more than half as long as the spikes, thin, lepidote; spikes subsessile, broadly elliptic, strongly compressed, 3 cm long, 2 cm wide, subdensely 5-6-flowered; rhachis geniculate, slender, lepidote. Floral bracts many times longer than the internodes but exposing most of the rhachis, elliptic, acute, to 20 mm long, exceeding the sepals, membranaceous, carinate, incurved at apex, sparsely lepidote. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 16 mm long, very sparsely lepidote, connate posteriorly for 1 mm; petals yellow, blades spreading, suborbicular, 6 mm long; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil.
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Distribution
Epiphytic on shrubs and cacti in arid formations, 325-2300 m alt, northern Peru.
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