Tillandsia paraensis Mez
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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 - Plant 15-46 cm. high: leaves to 35 cm. long, covered with minute pale appressed scales, the outer reduced to small acute sheaths, the inner sheaths large, ovate, convex and forming an ovoid pseudobulb, blades very narrowly triangular, abruptly acute, pungent, involute; scape curved, suberect, 3 mm. in diameter, sparsely lepidote; scape-bracts elliptic, equaling or slightly exceeding the internodes, densely lepidote; inflorescence simple or of two spikes; primary bract like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the spikes; spikes linear, complanate, 6-17 flowered, to 25 cm. long; floral bracts erect and imbricate but later convolute about the flowers and exposing the rhachis, broadly elliptic or suborbicular, obtuse or minutely apiculate, 25-32 mm. loner, much exceeding the sepals, ecarinate, nerved, subchartaceous greenish, yellowish, or purplish; densely lepidote; flowers subsessile; sepals free, elliptic, acute, 24 mm. long, lepidote; petals 33-70 mm. long, erect, red; stamens exserted; capsule cylindric, 3-7 cm. long.