Tillandsia abdita 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. Solis 314 (holotype F), Cerro de Escasú, San José, Costa Rica, Aug 1935.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless. Leaves numerous, suberect, 16 cm long, covered with appressed cinereous scales, reddish; sheaths merging with the blades; blades narrowly triangular, attenuate, ca 2 cm wide, slightly recurving. Scape very short, wholly concealed by the leaves. Inflorescence depauperate-compound, few-flowered, capitate, much exceeded by the leaves; primary bracts foliaceous but reduced, much exceeding the spikes; spikes densely 2-flowered, complanate. Floral bracts oblong, acute, 17 mm long, exceeding the sepals, carinate, membranaceous, subdensely lepidote with pale brown appressed scales; flowers subsessile. Sepals free, exactly like the floral bracts; petals and stamens unknown.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Costa Rica South America| San José Costa Rica Central America|