Tillandsia kuntzeana Mez

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. & Downs, Robert J. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14 (2): 663-1492. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tillandsia kuntzeana Mez

  • Type

    Type. Kuntze s n (holotype NY), near Tunari, 1300 m alt, Cercado, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Apr-May 1892.

  • Description

    Description - Plant stemless, flowering to over 1 m high. Leaves many, rosulate, 4 dm long; sheaths large, elliptic, pale, densely appressed-lepidote; blades attenuate, 30 mm wide, densely lepidote on both sides with pale appressed scales. Scape erect, stout, glabrous, exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts imbricate, elliptic, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, lepidote. Inflorescence pinnate from 4-5 spikes, 2 dm long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the spikes; spikes erect, sessile, 5-10 cm long, slightly complanate, densely 8-flowered. Floral bracts densely imbricate, ovate-elliptic, acute, mucronate, 32 mm long, 17 mm wide, exceeding the sepals, sharply carinate, incurved at apex, coriaceous, even, glabrous; flowers subsessile. Sepals linear, subacute, 26 mm long, connate 1/3 posteriorly, submembranaceous, nerved, glabrous; petals unknown. Capsule cylindric, acute.

  • Distribution

    Known from the type collection only.

    Bolivia South America| Cochabamba Bolivia South America|