Tillandsia undulatobracteata Rauh
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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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Type
Type. Rauh 25825 (holotype HEID, isotype US), mountain forest near Oxapampa, 1800 m alt, Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru, 22 Feb 1971.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering to 1 m high. Leaves many, arching, to 1.2 m long; sheath narrowly elliptic, scarcely distinct, to 18 cm long, 12 cm wide, densely vestite with minute, appressed, brown scales, partly red-striped; blades ligulate, attenuate at apex, 45-60 mm wide, obscurely lepidote beneath, glabrous above, dark green. Scape erect, ca 50 cm long, 15 mm thick, glabrous, pale yellow with carmine stripes; scape-bracts subfoliaceous, dense. Inflorescence narrowly pyramidal, laxly tripinnate, 1-1.3 m long, to 25 cm wide; axes slender, finely brown-lepidote; primary bracts subfoliaceous, spreading, mostly with 2-3 subfasciculate spikes and only the apical ones simple, the sterile base very short, naked; secondary bracts much reduced and like the floral bracts; spikes oblong, 8-10 cm long, to 3 cm wide, very lax, mostly more than 10-flowered. Floral bracts subspreading, elliptic, obtuse, 20-22 mm long, 11 mm wide, exceeding the sepals, thin, nerved, obscurely lepidote, bright yellow, cinnabar red toward base, the broad membranous margin strongly undulate; flowers subsessile. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, 18 mm long, sparsely lepidote to glabrous, the posterior carinate, connate ca 4 mm, the anterior connate 2 mm; petals narrowly ligulate, 30 mm long, yellow. Stamens and pistil included.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Peru South America| Pasco Peru South America|