Tillandsia tetrantha Ruiz & Pav.
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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 4-8 dm long. Leaves erect, densely appressed-lepidote, sheaths broadly elliptic-ovate, large, dark brown, blades narrowly lanceolate, 3-8 cm broad, gray-green, often purple-spotted. Scape usually much curved, about equaling the leaves; scape-bracts elliptic, long-caudate, inflated, usually the loosely sheathing bases shorter than the internodes. Inflorescence erect or pendulous, bipinnate or rarely tripinnate, axis more or less geniculate; primary bracts ovate to ovate-elliptic, apiculate to short-caudate, from half as long as to longer than the spikes, finely lepidote; spikes spreading or reflexed, distichous-flowered often becoming secund; rhachis nearly straight. Floral bracts shorter than the sepals, broadly ovate, nerved, lepidote; flowers spreading, subsessile. Sepals obovate or oblong, lepidote; petals slightly exserted, conglutinated, yellow; stamens included. Capsule cylindric, acute, 30 mm long.