Tillandsia lepidosepala 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. Pringle 5323 (holotype GH), Lake Cuitzco, Michoacan, Mexico, 1892.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless or very short-caulescent, often aggregated in dense masses. Leaves rosulate, to 15 cm long, covered with slightly spreading cinereous scales; sheaths broadly ovate or suborbicular, not at all inflated, 10-15 mm long; blades erect or spreading, linear-triangular, attenuate, 7 mm wide at the base, involute. Scape short, almost hidden by the leaves; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous, about equaling the inflorescence. Inflorescence simple and distichous-flowered or rarely with a small second spike and primary bract like the upper scape-bracts, exceeded by the leaves; spikes 3-5 cm long, 2-5-flowered. Floral bracts lanceolate, acute, 20-35 mm long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, three to four times as long as the internodes, submembranaceous, not at all carinate, densely cinereous-lepidote; flowers sessile. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, to 20 mm long, strongly nerved, densely lepidote, free, the lateral ones carinate. Capsule cylindric, short-beaked, about equaling the floral bracts.
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Distribution
Saxicolous and epiphytic, dry slopes, 2000-2450 m alt, central Mexico.
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