Tillandsia sinuosa 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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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering nearly 6 dm high. Leaves rosulate, 30 cm long, densely punctulate-lepidote; sheaths ovate, brown; blades narrowly triangular, long-attenuate. Scape erect, slender; scape-bracts narrowly elliptic, apiculate, densely imbricate. Inflorescence laxly tripinnate, 12 cm in diameter, nearly glabrous; primary bracts narrowly lanceolate, spreading, much shorter than the axillary branches; spikes narrowly linear, 5 cm long, 5 mm wide, laxly 14-flowered; rhachis sinuous, slender, scantly lepidote. Floral bracts erect, ovate, acute, 5-6 mm long, equaling the flowers, much exceeding the internodes, lepidote, sulcate, keeled toward apex, incurved; flowers minute, erect. Sepals obovate, lepidote; petals slightly longer than the sepals, acute, yellow, punctulate; stamens deeply included, exceeding the style; anthers ovoid, mucronulate. Capsule slenderly cylindric, 2 cm long.