Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.
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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 - Growing pendent from trees in slender branching strands; roots usually absent; stem less than 1 mm. thick, sympodial, internodes 3-6 cm. long with only the extreme base covered by the leaves, curved; leaves 5 cm. long, densely lepidote, sheaths elliptic, 8 mm. long, blades filiform, less than 1 mm. thick; scape lacking; inflorescence reduced to a single flower: floral bracts shorter than the sepals, ovate, lepidote; sepals narrowly ovate, acute, to 7 mm. long thin, nerved, glabrous, equally short-connate; petals narrow, 9-11 mm, long, pale green or blue; stamens deeply included, exceeding the pistil; capsule cylindric, to 25 mm. long.