Tillandsia vicentina Standl.
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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. Standley 21588 (holotype US), Volcan de San Vicente, San Vicente, Salvador, 7-8 Mar 1922.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless. Leaves many in a dense crateriform rosette, suberect to spreading, 25-30 cm long, equaling the inflorescence; sheaths ovate, 15-20 mm wide, dark brown; blades linear-triangular, attenuate, 6-8 mm wide at the base, straight, flat, green on the upper surface and covered with closely appressed scales, beneath silvery, covered with coarse loose whitish scales. Scape erect, 4 mm in diameter, lepidote; scape-bracts strict, imbricate, ovate with long filiform laminae, densely appressed-pale-lepidote. Inflorescence densely digitate or short-pinnate from 5-14 spikes, 7-10 cm long; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, their sheaths about a third as long as the axillary spikes, their blades equaling or exceeding the lower ones; spikes subsessile, lance-oblong, acute, 6-8-flowered with several sterile bracts at the base, 4-7 cm long, 14 mm wide, strongly complanate. Floral bracts erect, imbricate and concealing the slender rhachis, ovate, acute, 20-25 mm long, exceeding the sepals, three times as long as the internodes, sharply carinate, subchartaceous, pink, densely appressed-cinereous-lepidote at least when young; flowers subsessile. Sepals lanceolate, acute, 2 cm long, subcoriaceous, sparsely lepidote or glabrous, carinate and short-connate posteriorly; petals linear, tubular-erect, 4 cm long, violet; stamens and pistil exserted.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in forest, 1400-2700 m alt, southern Mexico to Nicaragua.
Mexico North America| Oaxaca Mexico North America| Chiapas Mexico North America| Guatemala Central America| Quiché Guatemala Central America| Baja Verapaz Guatemala Central America| San Marcos Guatemala Central America| Quezaltenango Guatemala Central America| Zacapa Guatemala Central America| Jalapa Guatemala Central America| Guatemala Guatemala Central America| Sacatepéquez Guatemala Central America| Chimaltenango Guatemala Central America| Honduras Central America| Morazán Honduras Central America| El Salvador Central America| Santa Ana El Salvador Central America| Sonsonate El Salvador Central America| Nicaragua Central America| Matagalpa Nicaragua Central America|