Tillandsia walteri 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 walteri Mez

  • Type

    Type. Weberbauer 4319 (B, F photo 11535), south of Chachapoyas, Amazonas, Peru, 10 Jul 1904.

  • Synonyms

    Tillandsia herrerae Harms

  • Description

    Description - Plant stemless, flowering 5-7 dm high. Leaves many in a dense utriculate rosette, cinereous-lepidote; sheaths longer than the blades, narrowly ovate; blades narrowly lanceolate, attenuate; 2 dm long, 4 cm wide. Scape erect, stout, about equaling the leaves; scape-bracts imbricate, broadly elliptic, densely lepidote, rigid, nerved, the lower ones caudate. Inflorescence simple, dense, distichously 12-16-flowered, lanceolate, 2 dm long, 4 cm wide, but slightly complanate; rhachis straight, alate, glabrous. Floral bracts imbricate and concealing the rhachis, broadly elliptic, obtuse, 5 cm long, exceeding the sepals, inflated, ecarinate, coriaceous, faintly nerved, sparsely and obscurely punctulate-lepidote, roseate drying to allutaceous; pedicels stout, 4 mm long. Sepals equally subfree, obtuse, 40 mm long, ecarinate, thick-chartaceous, nerved, glabrous; petals 60 mm long, violet; stamens included.

  • Distribution

    Terrestrial, saxicolous, and epiphytic, dry or wet forest, 2450--4050 m alt, southern Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia.

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