Tillandsia subulifera Mez
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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. Broadway 4200 (holotype B, B photo 1192/26), Longdenville, Trinidad.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 15-19 cm high. Leaves few in a distinct but slenderly cylindric pseudobulb, erect, the inner ones to 18 cm long, the outer greatly reduced, appressed-canescent-lepidote, concolorous or with faint white cross-bands; sheaths about half as long as the blades, ample; blades linear, abruptly acute or obtuse, 5 mm wide at the base, complicate, strongly angled. Scape erect, slender, exceeded and largely concealed by the leaves; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, many-nerved, densely lepidote. Inflorescence erect, simple, oblong or linear in outline, 5-7 cm long, distichously 4-6-flowered; axis slender, geniculate, mostly not covered by the floral bracts, appressed-lepidote. Floral bracts erect, elliptic, broadly acute, 2 cm long, shorter than the sepals, incurved and more or less carinate toward the apex, prominently nerved, appressed-lepidote; flowers erect, short-pedicellate. Sepals elliptic, narrowly obtuse, 22 mm long, prominently nerved, appressed-lepidote, free; petals tubular-erect, 32 mm long, yellow or white when dry; stamens exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, acuminate, 6 cm long.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in forests and plantations, 50-200 m alt, Panama, Venezuela, Trinidad.
Panama Central America| Canal Zone Panamá Central America| Venezuela South America| Sucre Venezuela South America| Táchira Venezuela South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America|