Tillandsia yunckeri 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. Yuncker, Dawson & Youse 6432 (holotype GH), summit of range above El Achote, above plains of Siguatepeque, Comayagua, Honduras, 3 Aug 1936.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering over 7 dm high. Leaves many in a crateriform rosette, straight, 4 dm long, strongly suffused with purple; sheaths broadly elliptic, about 15 cm long, densely punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acute, to 5 cm wide, flat, glabrous above, obscurely punctulate-lepidote below. Scape erect, stout, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous, large. Inflorescence compound with simple branches, slenderly pyramidal, 2 dm long, the apical half dense; primary bracts suborbicular with a short foliaceous blade, exceeding and closely enfolding the axillary spikes, bright red, glabrous, lustrous; spikes sessile, broadly lanceolate, acute, densely 4-flowered with a sterile bract at the base, 65 mm long, 25 mm wide, complanate, the upper suberect, the lower spreading. Floral bracts lance-ovate, acute, to 45 mm long, much exceeding the sepals, sharply carinate with flat sides, coriaceous, even or faintly nerved, glabrous; flowers subsessile. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 3 cm long, coriaceous, glabrous, sharply carinate, the posterior ones much connate; petals tubular-erect, 5-6 cm long; stamens probably exserted.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in forest, 900-2200 m alt, southern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador.
Mexico North America| Oaxaca Mexico North America| Guatemala Central America| San Marcos Guatemala Central America| Quezaltenango Guatemala Central America| Suchitepéquez Guatemala Central America| Honduras Central America| Morazán Honduras Central America| El Salvador Central America| Santa Ana El Salvador Central America|