Tillandsia ferreyrae L.B.Sm.

University of California
Seventh Botanical Garden Expedition to the Andes, 1963*1964
Director, Paul C. Hutchison
Additional field notes for 5845
Plant erect, to 1 ssater in diameter. Leaves
glaucous* yellow-green with olive-brown base
and a band of purple-brown at the transition
point. Inflorescences 2 m., arching out more
or less horizontally from the vertical cliff
face, the stalk purplish on sun side, 22-26
branched (these branches sometimes branched),
drooping; bracts purplish black on main stalk
and darker with white margin on branches, the
margins becoming soarious with age* Floral
bracts glaucous, blue-purple toward sun and
greenish beneath; petals purple, filaments
and style white, anthers black, pollen yellow.
Collection number: 5845 . Size of set: 26 . Set 1, UC;—2
determiner's set, TJS«4 . Duplicates: USM, US, F, NY, MO, K,
MICH, M, P, LE, G, GH, HEID, S, LILJ3, C, WIS, BR, L, TEX, R,
Iffi.
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University of California
Seventh Botanical Garden Expedition to the Andes, 1963-1964
Director, Paul C. Hutchison
PERU
Tillandsia ferreyrae L. B. Smith
Dct. L. B. Smith, 1966
Rio Utcubamba, 15 km. south of Tingo toward Leime-
bamba.	Altitude 1900 m.
Province of Chachapoyas, Department of Amazonas
Paul C. Hutchison 5845
J. Kenneth Wright	4	14 June 1964
Distributed by the Herbarium of the University or California
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