Tillandsia stenoura Harms
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Authority
Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering to 1.5 m high. Leaves 2.5-7 dm long; sheaths large, broadly elliptic, often tinged with dark purple; blades lanceolate, ligulate, or subtriangular, densely cinereous-lepidote beneath, soon glabrous above. Scape erect; scape-bracts densely imbricate and wholly covering the scape, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper lanceolate, red. Inflorescence densely to laxly 2-3 pinnate, clavate or cylindric, glabrous except for the obscurely lepidote apices of the bracts, red except for the petals; primary bracts ovate, acute, 4-6 cm long; spikes sessile or subsessile, 9-29 cm long, more or less caudate-acuminate from a base 3-5 cm wide, strongly complanate, densely many-flowered. Floral bracts imbricate and wholly covering the rhachis, ovate, beaked, 25-35 mm long, always exceeding the sepals, very sharply carinate, coriaceous, smooth, lustrous; pedicels 2 mm long. Sepals free, narrowly lanceolate, acute, 20-23 mm long, the posterior carinate; petals linear, 30 mm long, naked, the blade lavender; stamens included, the filaments straight. Capsule cylindric, about equaling the sepals.