Tillandsia flexuosa Sw.
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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. Based on Jacquin s n (W), Cartagena, Colombia, as a nomen novum for Tillandsia tenuifolia sensu Jacquin.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia tenuifolia L., Tillandsia flexuosa var. fasciata Lindl., Tillandsia aloifolia Hook., Tillandsia patens Schult. ex Willd., Tillandsia limbata Schltdl., Vriesea aloifolia (Hook.) Beer, Vriesea tenuifolia Beer, Platystachys patens (Schult. ex Wild) K.Koch, Tillandsia flexuosa var. vivipara André
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 2-15 dm high. Leaves 10-20 in a dense often subbulbous rosette, 2-5 dm long, densely pale-appressed-lepidote, usually marked with broad white transverse stripes, the outer bladeless, squamiform; sheaths ovate, very large but passing into the blade without clear distinction; blades narrowly triangular, about 25 mm wide, attenuate, then abruptly and pungently acute, stiff, curved. Scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, tubular-involute, elliptic, acute or obtuse, appressed-lepidote, at least the upper ones shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence simple or very laxly bipinnate; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the sterile bases of the axillary branches; branches ascending, to 4 dm long, very laxly flowered; rhachis slender, flexuous, sharply angled, glabrous. Floral bracts spreading with the flowers, elliptic, broadly acute, 2-3 cm long, equaling or shorter than the sepals, about equaling the internodes, ecarinate, chartaceous, prominently nerved, densely or sparsely appressed-lepidote; pedicels to 7 mm long. Sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 2-3 cm long, 7 mm wide, free, subchartaceous, prominently nerved, sparsely lepidote or glabrous; petals tubular-erect, linear, acute, to 4 cm long, white or rose or purple; stamens exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, acuminate, to 7 cm long.
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Distribution
Epiphytic, from near sea level to 480 m alt, southern Florida, West Indies, Panama, northern South America.
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