Tillandsia schiedeana Steud.
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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 - Flowering plant to 4 dm. long, but usually not much over 2 dm., often pulvinate; roots present; stem simple or few-branched; leaves varying greatly in density, to 25 cm. long, sheaths suborbicular, large, densely imbricate and making the stem appear stout, glabrous only where covered, blades very narrowly triangular, filiform-acuminate, involute-subulate, densely cinereous- or ferruginous-lepidote, the scales appressed near the apex of leaf, spreading below; scape terminal, erect, shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper thinner and usually roseate but usually with a filiform blade; inflorescence distichous or sometimes polystichous at base (! Mez), lanceolate, acuminate, to 7 cm. long and 8 mm. in diameter, few-flowered; floral bracts lance-elliptic, obtuse or the basal ones apiculate, 30 mm. long, much exceeding the sepals, membranaceous, roseate, sulcate, the upper ones often glabrous; flowers to 46 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, to 20 mm. long, subcoriaceous, even or nearly so; petals tubular-erect, yellow; stamens and pistil exserted; capsule cylindric, to 45 mm, long.