Tillandsia subalata André
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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 - Stemless, 4-7 dm. high; leaves few, 15-40 cm. long, densely and finely appressed-lepidote, coriaceous, sheaths ovate, large, brown, blades linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-3 cm. wide, often involute; scape slender, compressed; scape-bracts oblong, apiculate or short-caudate, about equaling the internodes; inflorescence laxly tripinnate, imperfectly distichous; axes pale-ferruginous-lepidote; primary bracts ovate, acute, much shorter than the branches; branches spreading, 4-5 cm. long, usually much divided; spikes about 10-flowered; rhachis strongly geniculate, obscurely alate; floral bracts ovate, acute, 7-9 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, obscurely keeled, incurved at apex, not imbricate at maturity, membranous, lepidote; flowers suberect; sepals subelliptic, obtuse, 5 mm. long, carinate, lepidote; petals 7 mm. long, yellow, blades spreading; stamens included.