Tillandsia schiedeana Steud.
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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. Schiede & Deppe 1004 (B, B photo 1249/24; isotype BM), Hacienda de la Laguna, Vera Cruz, Mexico.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia vestita Willd. ex Schult.f., Tillandsia flavescens Martens & Galeotti, Tillandsia caerulea Kunth, Tillandsia grisebachii Baker, Tillandsia eggersii Baker
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Description
Description - Plant caulescent, flowering to 4 dm long, but usually not much more than 2 dm, often pulvinate; stem 5-20 cm long, simple or few-branched. Leaves polystichous-ranked, varying greatly in density, to 25 cm long, densely cinereous-lepidote or ferruginous-lepidote; scales appressed near the apex of leaf, spreading below; sheaths suborbicular, large, densely imbricate and making the stem appear very stout, at least the margin hyaline, glabrous only where covered; blades very narrowly triangular, filiform-attenuate, involute-subulate. Scape terminal, erect, shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts imbricate and concealing the scape, the lower foliaceous, the upper thinner and usually roseate but usually with a distinct filiform lamina also. Inflorescence always simple, distichous or sometimes polystichous at base, lanceolate, attenuate at both ends, terete, to 7 cm long and 8 mm in diameter but often less than half as large, densely few-flowered; rhachis nearly straight, slender, strongly sulcate, glabrous. Floral bracts densely imbricate and wholly concealing the rhachis, twice or thrice as long as the internodes, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse or the basal ones minutely apiculate, about 30 mm long and 10 mm wide, much exceeding the sepals, membranaceous, roseate, strongly nerved, the lower ones appressed-lepidote, the upper ones often glabrous; flowers sessile, to 46 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, acute, to 20 mm long, subcoriaceous, glabrous, even or few-nerved, the posterior ones carinate and usually much connate; petals tubular-erect, yellow; stamens and pistil exserted; ovary ellipsoid. Capsule cylindric, to 45 mm long.
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Distribution
Epiphytic, 50-1800 m alt, Mexico and the West Indies to Colombia and Venezuela.
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