Tillandsia complanata Benth.
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. 1957. The Bromeliaceae of Colombia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 33: i-v, 1-311.
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Leaves many in a dense rosette, 3-4 dm. long or rarely more, mostly exceeding the inflorescence, spotted, streaked, or suffused with dark purple especially toward the base, sheaths elliptic or narrowly ovate, 10-16 cm. long, densely and minutely brown-appressed-lepidote blades abruptly acute or subobtuse, 3-5 cm. wide, obscurely punctulate-lepidote, soon glabrous; scape-bracts numerous. erect, usually imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, subchartaceous, glabrous or subglabrous; inflorescences simple, lanceolate or linear in outline, acute, densely 4-24-flowered, up to 8 cm. long, 15-20 mm. wide, usually complanate, glabrous; floral bracts erect, imbricate, elliptic, obtuse, 15-25 mm. long, exceeding the sepals coriaceous or subcoriaceous, even or prominently nerved, often rose or purple; flowers subsessile; sepals lanceolate, acute, 10-15 mm. long, subcoriaceous, the posterior ones carinate and usually much connate; petals ligulate, about 2 cm. long, rose, purple, or blue, the blades suberect, obtuse; stamens and pistil slightly shorter than the petals; capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 4 cm. long.