Tillandsia mima 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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Type
Type. Cuatrecasas 17816 (holotype GH, isotypes F, US, VALLE), Lobo Guerrero, western slope of the Cordillera Occidental, Valle, Colombia, 9-10 Sep 1944.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia secunda Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 2-A m high. Leaves rosulate, nearly 7 dm long; sheaths oblong-elliptic, inconspicuous, very densely and minutely castaneous-lepidote; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, 5-6 cm wide, densely and minutely white-lepidote on both sides. Scape erect, 2 cm in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts foliaceous, erect, imbricate. Inflorescence very laxly 2-3-pinnate, glabrous; primary bracts lanceolate, acute, shorter than the sterile bases of the branches; branches divergent, 5-9 dm long, laxly many-flowered, prophyllate at the base; rhachis flexuous, slender, red-purple. Floral bracts erect, elliptic, apiculate, 20-25 mm long, about equaling the internodes, ecarinate, strongly nerved, subcoriaceous, green at the base, elsewhere violaceous; flowers downwardly secund, pedicels stout, angled, 5 mm long. Sepals free, narrowly obovate, broadly acute, ecarinate, to 24 mm long, nerved; petals linear, 35 mm long, blue-violet; stamens and style long-exserted. Capsule slender, ellipsoid, long-acuminate.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in dry thickets and saxicolous on cliffs, 650-1885 m alt, Colombia, Ecuador.
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