Tillandsia ferreyrae L.B.Sm.

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tillandsia ferreyrae L.B.Sm.

  • Type

    Type. Ferreyra 14445 (holotype US, isotype USM), below Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru, 19 May 1962.

  • Description

    Description - Plant flowering 1.5-2 m high. Leaves 1 m long (?); sheaths ample, dark castaneous; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, 10 cm wide, flat, covered with pale appressed scales. Scape unknown. Inflorescence very lax, subtripinnate (lowest branches divided), ample, glabrous; primary bracts ovate, 35 mm long, much shorter than the laxly bracteate sterile bases of the branches; branches subspreading, slender, to 4 dm long; spikes linear, to 2 dm long, 3 cm wide, sublax, many-flowered, strongly complanate; rhachis slightly flexuous, 4 mm wide, strongly winged. Floral bracts divergent, about 3 times as long as the internodes but not covering the rhachis at all, oblong, obtuse, over 3 cm long, about equaling the sepals, ecarinate, probably fleshy, strongly rugose-sulcate when dry; flowers subsessile. Sepals free, elliptic, obtuse, 30 mm long, ecarinate, strongly nerved when dry; only very immature petals and stamens known.

  • Distribution

    Rocky slopes and cliff faces, 1900-2000 m alt., Amazonas, Peru.

    Peru South America| Amazonas Peru South America|