Tillandsia lampropoda 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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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 4-6 dm high. Leaves many, substrict, forming a slenderly cyathiform rosette; sheaths oblong-elliptic, 1 dm long, densely and obscurely punctulate-lepidote, bright-purple; blades very narrowly triangular, caudate-attenuate, very densely appressed-cinereous-lepidote. Scape erect, 6 mm in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, broadly ovate, apiculate or the lowest narrowly caudate-laminate, subinflated, very obscurely punctulate, even, shining, red when living. Inflorescence simple or digitate; spikes elliptic, acute, strongly complanate. Floral bracts distichous, densely imbricate, 8 times as long as the internodes, broadly ovate, acute, 5 cm long, 4 cm wide, strongly carinate, coriaceous, even, shining, very obscurely punctulate, cinereous-lepidote toward apex, yellow toward the apex, shading into red toward the base, narrowly dark-margined; flowers subsessile. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, 32 mm long, carinate, coriaceous, nerved, glabrous, free; petals about 5 cm long, yellow; stamens exserted.