Tillandsia carlos-hankii Matuda
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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. Matuda 38514 (holotype MEX; isotype Direccion de Agricultura y Ganaderia, State of Mexico, Toluca), in mixed forest, oak and pine, Sierra de Santiago Lachevia, Yautepec, 2900 m alt, Oaxaca, Mexico, 28 Oct 1972.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 40 cm high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, suberect to spreading or decurved, rigid, minutely lepidote; sheaths ovate, 8 cm long, 4 cm wide, reddish; blades very narrowly triangular, involute-subulate, 40 cm long, 2 cm wide at base. Scape erect, stout; scape-bracts imbricate, the lowest subfoliaceous, densely green-lepidote, pale green beneath, reddish above. Inflorescence densely and narrowly cylindric, 17 cm long; primary bracts elliptic, the lower exceeding the axillary spikes, long-laminate, 30-35 cm long including the blades; spikes short-stipitate, strict, 45 mm long, 25 mm wide, complanate, green. Floral bracts densely imbricate, oblong-triangular, 25 mm long, 12 mm wide, sharply carinate, coriaceous. Sepals free, symmetric, lanceolate, 25 mm long, carinate; petals tubular-erect, 40 mm long; yellow-green; stamens and style much exserted.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Mexico North America| Oaxaca Mexico North America|