Tillandsia dasyliriifolia Baker
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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. Gaumer s n (holotype K, GH photo), Holbox Island, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia drepanoclada Baker, Tillandsia geniculata Baker, Tillandsia pulvinata Baker
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 5-15 dm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, to 7 dm long, densely and finely appressed-lepidote throughout; sheaths large, elliptic, dark castaneous; blades linear-triangular, to 6 cm wide at base. Scape erect, stout, generally exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts erect, ovate or lanceolate, acute, at least the lower ones imbricate and linear-laminate. Inflorescence central, laxly bipinnate, usually ample, subpyramidal; primary bracts ovate, acute or obtuse, shorter than the sterile base of the axillary branch; spikes suberect or curved-ascending, to 45 cm long, laxly flowered with several sterile bracts at base; rhachis strongly flexuous or geniculate so that the flowers are nearly or quite at right angles to each other, usually stout, sulcate, flattened next the flowers, glabrous. Floral bracts very broadly ovate, the lower half consequently enfolding part of the rhachis at anthesis, obtuse, 16-25 mm long, shorter than the sepals, about equaling the internodes or sometimes slightly longer, coriaceous, glabrous outside, dark-punctulate-lepidote inside, even except near the margin, ecarinate; flowers subsessile, erect and appressed to the rhachis. Sepals narrowly elliptic or obovate, obtuse, to 25 mm long, coriaceous, even, glabrous outside, dark-punctulate-lepidote inside, short-connate; petals tubular-erect, ligulate, obtuse, 3-4 cm long, white or greenish; stamens and pistil long-exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 4-5 cm long.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in dry exposed habitats, from near sea level to 1800 m alt, central Mexico to Salvador, Honduras, and the Colombian Islands east of Nicaragua.
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