Tillandsia tetrantha Ruiz & Pav.
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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, 4-8 dm. long; leaves erect, densely appressed-lepidote, sheaths broadly elliptic-ovate, large, dark brown, blades narrowly lanceolate, 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; axis more or less geniculate; primary bracts 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.