Tillandsia pruinosa Sw.
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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 8-20 cm. high; leaves to 2 dm. long, densely cinereous- or ferruginous-Iepidote with coarse spreading scales, sheaths elliptic to suborbicular, forming an elongate pseudobulb, abruptly contracted into the blades at the apex and the inner ones closely enfolding the base of the inflorescence, castaneous, blades usually exceeding the inflorescence, linear, filiform-acuminate, involute-subulate, 2-4 mm. in diameter; scape short, included in the pseudobulb; inflorescence simple or digitate from 2 or 3 spikes; spikes 5-15-flowered, to 7 cm. and 4 cm. wide, complanate; rhachis straight, angled, densely lepidote; floral bracts erect, four or five times as long as the inernodes, ovate, acute, 20-26 mm. long, much exceeding the sepals, carinate toward the apex, subcoriaceous, pink at anthesis; sepals broadly elliptic, obtuse, 13-19 mm. long, sparsely lepidote or glabrous, coriaceous, connate posteriorly; petals linear, 3 cm. long, violet; stamens exserted; capsule cylindric, to 55 mm. long.