Tillandsia valenzuelana A.Rich.
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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. Sagra s n (holotype P), Vuelta de Abajo, Cuba.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia moritziana Beer, Platystachys moritziana Beer, Tillandsia laxa Griseb., Tillandsia kunthiana Gaudich., Tillandsia brachypoda Baker, Tillandsia sublaxa Baker, Tillandsia polystachia (L.) L., Tillandsia houzeavii Chapm., Tillandsia fasciculata var. laxa Mez, Tillandsia purpusii Mez, Tillandsia domingensis Mez
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 2-6 dm high. Leaves numerous in a utriculate rosette, to 4 dm long, sometimes exceeding the inflorescence, the outer ones reduced to scale-like sheaths, very densely and Finely appressed-cinereous-lepidote throughout, occasionally becoming glabrous above; sheaths large, ovate, concolorous with the blade; blades linear-triangular, attenuate, flat or slightly inrolled in drying, 10-25 mm wide. Scape central, erect or ascending, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, ovate, inflated, densely and finely cinereous-lepidote, pink or red, fading to olivaceous, at least the lower ones with linear subfoliaceous blades. Inflorescence simple or pinnately compound with a few spikes; axes slender, soon glabrous; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, their sheaths much shorter than the axillary spikes but the elongate blades sometimes exceeding the lower ones; spikes divergent, oblong, acute, complanate, often rather lax, 6-17-flowered with the larger spikes usually in the simple inflorescences, especially the terminal spike with sterile bracts at base, 5-20 cm long, 1-2 cm wide; rhachis slender, angled, slightly flexuous. Floral bracts erect or slightly divergent, mostly two to three times as long as the internodes, usually exposing the rhachis, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, about 2 cm long, 8 mm wide, much exceeding the sepals, submembranaceous, prominently nerved, subglabrous, pink or red, usually drying to dull olivaceous, ecarinate or sometimes carinate toward apex; flowers subsessile. Sepals oblong, obtuse, more or less connate posteriorly; petals linear, acute, 3 cm long, lilac or violet; stamens exserted, the filaments undulate near apex. Capsule prismatic, abruptly acute, 3 cm long.
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Distribution
Epiphytic, from near sea level to 2200 m alt, southern Florida, Greater Antilles and southern Mexico to Venezuela and Bolivia.
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