Tillandsia mallemontii Glaz. ex Mez

  • 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 mallemontii Glaz. ex Mez

  • Type

    Type. Glaziou 14345 (holotype B, US photo, isotype K), Tijuca, Guanabara, Brazil, sd.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia linearis Vell., Phytarrhiza uniflora Baker ex E.Morren

  • Description

    Description - Plant caulescent; roots present; stem very slender, 1-2 dm long, branching. Leaves distichous, to 12 cm long, cinereous, densely pruinose-lepidote; sheaths narrowly ovate, to 2 cm long, membranaceous, glabrous within and below on the outside; blades mostly spreading or reflexed, irregularly curved, linear, long-attenuate, 1-1.5 mm in diameter. Scape terminal, straight to strongly curved, to 13 cm long, lepidote, almost filiform; scape-bracts like the floral bracts but sometimes long-laminate, 1 or 2 immediately below the inflorescence or rarely one somewhat remote. Inflorescence always simple and distichous-flowered, narrowly lanceolate, complanate, 25 mm long, 4 mm wide, densely 1-1-flowered; rhachis glabrous, compressed, slightly geniculate. Floral bracts slightly more than twice as long as the internodes but not really imbricate because separated by the flowers at anthesis, ovate, acute, to 9 mm long, ecarinate, nerved, thin, densely lepidote; flowers erect, subsessile. Sepals suboblong, acute, 12.5 mm long, glabrous, nerved, equally short-connate; petals to 17 mm long, claw linear, blade suborbicular, obtuse, 6.5 mm wide, spreading at anthesis, blue or violet; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil; anthers oblong, obtuse, 2 mm long; ovary cylindric, abruptly contracted into the short thick style.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic in low woods or forest or rarely saxicolous, 0-800 m alt, eastern Brazil.

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