Tillandsia sanctae-martae L.B.Sm.
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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, 3-5 dm. high with the inflorescence extended; leaves densely bulbous-rosulate, 15-25 cm, long, densely and minutely pale-lepidote, sheaths suborbicular, 6 cm. in diameter, thin, blades to 15 mm. wide, coriaceous; scape slender, curved, cinereous-lepidote becoming glabrous; scape-bracts ovate, at least the upper ones shorter than the internodes; inflorescence apparently pendulous, laxly tripinnate, narrow, cinereous-lepidote; primary bracts like the scapebracts, mostly shorter than the sterile naked bases of the branches; spikes about 8-flowered, 2-3 cm. long; rhachis geniculate; floral bracts ovate, about half as long as the sepals, ecarinate but with a distinct midnerve; flowers spreading or subspreading; sepals obovate, asymmetric, 5 mm. long; petals slightly if at all exserted.