Tillandsia mima 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 - Leaves rosulate, nearly 7 dm. long, the sheaths oblong-elliptic, inconspicuous, very densely and minutely castaneous-lepidote, the blades narrowly triangular, acuminate, 5-6 cm. wide, densely and minutely white-lepidote on both sides; scape erect, 2 cm. in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts foliaceous, erect, imbricate; inflorescence very laxly 2-3-pinnate, glabrous; primary bracts lanceolate, acute, shorter than the sterile bases of the branches; branches divergent, 5-9 dm. long, laxly many-flowered, prophyllate at the base; rhachis flexuous, slender, red-purple; floral bracts erect, elliptic, apiculate, 20-25 mm. long, about equahng the internodes, ecarinate, subcoriaceous, green at the base, elsewhere violaceous; pedicels stout, angled, 5 mm. long; sepals free, broadly acute, ecarinate, to 24 mm. long, nerved; petals linear, 35 mm. long, blue-violet; stamens and style long-exserted; capsule slender, ellipsoid, long-acuminate.