Tillandsia guatemalensis L.B.Sm.
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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. Warsczewicz in Berlin Hortus s n (holotype B, B photo 1249/30), without exact locality, Guatemala.
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Synonyms
Tillandsia cyanea Linden ex K.Koch, Tillandsia uyucensis Gilmartin, Tillandsia uyucensis var. minor Gilmartin, Tillandsia columnaris E.Morren ex Baker, Allardtia cyanea A.Dietr., Platystachys cyanea (A.Dietr.) K.Koch ex K.Koch & Sello
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, flowering 2.5-15 dm high. Leaves many in a dense crateriform rosette, 3-4 dm long; sheaths conspicuous, elliptic or ovate, 8 cm broad, densely brown -punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acuminate, flat, 3-4 cm wide, thin when dry, subglabrous, glaucous-green. Scape erect, stout, equaling or exceeding the leaves, glabrous; scape-bracts densely imbricate, foliaceous with divergent to spreading blades. Inflorescence ample, pinnately compound with most of the branches divided to reduced and bipinnate, narrowly subpyramidal or cylindric, to 8 dm long; axes glabrous, often flexuous toward apex; primary bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate with attenuate green blades, red, the lower ones about equaling the axillary branches, the upper ones much shorter; branches about 2 cm apart, divergent to spreading, to 15 cm long; spikes narrowly lanceolate, acute, subdense, 6-26-flowered, complanate, to 85 mm long, 10 mm wide. Floral bracts erect, imbricate, elliptic-ovate, obtuse and apiculate, 10-14 mm long, slightly exceeding the sepals, two and a half times as long as the internodes, slightly if at all carinate, subcoriaceous, prominently nerved, glabrous; flowers erect, short-stipitate. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, obtusish, 9-10 mm long, thin, nerved, glabrous, the posterior ones carinate, short-connate; petals linear, obtuse, 15-18 mm long, exceeding the stamens and pistil, blue. Capsule cylindric, acute, 20-25 mm long.
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Distribution
Epiphytic in forest, 1100-2800 m alt, southern Mexico, Central America.
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