Tillandsia gracillima 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. M. B. Foster 3033 (holotype US), near Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, 11 Feb 1958.
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Description
Description - Plant flowering 45-60 cm high. Leaves fasciculate (?), 40 cm long, covered with pale, subappressed scales; sheaths narrow, concolorous and merging with the blades, blackish and auricled at extreme base; blades very narrowly triangular, filiform-attenuate, ca 5 mm wide at base, more or less involute at least when dry. Scape erect, very long and slender; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, the lower subfoliaceous, the upper lanceolate, apiculate. Inflorescence typically 2-branched; primary bract like the upper scape-bracts, much shorter than the axillary spike; spikes elliptic with a narrow, sterile, bracteate base, lax; rhachis slender, nearly straight. Floral bracts strongly divergent at anthesis and exposing the rhachis, ovate, acute, to 19 mm long, convex, white-lepidote, thin-coriaceous, nerved at apex; pedicels short, obscure. Sepals oblong, acute, 22 mm long, slightly exserted, glabrous, the posterior carinate, connate for 10 mm; petals tubular-involute, ca 4 cm long, violet; stamens exserted.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Mexico North America| Puebla Mexico North America|