Tillandsia baliophylla Harms

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tillandsia baliophylla Harms

  • Type

    Type. Ekman H-8308 (holotype B, isotypes S, US), on rocks, Morne Poudré, Marmelade, Massif du Nord, Haiti, 30 May 1927.

  • Description

    Description - Plant stemless, flowering to over 1 m high. Leaves many in a dense spreading rosette, to 5 dm long, obscurely punctulate-lepidote, green with fine purple spots; sheath elliptic, 18 cm long; blade narrowly triangular, attenuate, 5 cm wide. Scape erect, stout, exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper broadly ovate, acuminate. Inflorescence densely bipinnate, narrow, 4-7 dm long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, shorter to longer than the sterile bracteate bases of the branches; spikes erect to slightly divergent, linear-lanceolate, acute, strongly complanate, 7-22 cm long, dense. Floral bracts imbricate and wholly concealing the rhachis at anthesis, oblong, obtuse or apiculate, 35-50 mm long, ecarinate, coriaceous, even or nearly so, pale, glaucous; pedicels stout, 5 mm long. Sepals free, oblong, slightly exserted at anthesis, the posterior carinate; petals linear, 8 cm long, white, quickly pendent at anthesis; stamens exceeding the petals.

  • Distribution

    Epiphytic and saxicolous, 750-1000 m alt, Hispaniola.

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