Tillandsia diguetii Mez & Rol.-Goss.
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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. Diguet s n (holotype B, B photo 1191/2), Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, cultivated by Roland-Gosselin.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 7-8 cm high. Leaves many in a dense bulbous rosette, less than 1 dm long, densely and coarsely subspreading-canous-lepidote; sheaths inflated, forming an ellipsoid pseudobulb; blades recurved and contorted, long-attenuate, flat, 1 cm wide at the base, rigid. Scape none. Inflorescence sessile in the center of the leaf-rosette, compound, densely capitate, of 5 spikes; primary bracts foliaceous, much exceeding the axillary spikes but exposing them because of the reflexed blades; spikes strict, sessile, elliptic in outline, acute, densely 2-flowered or 3-flowered, 3 cm long. Floral bracts 2 cm long, exceeding the sepals, barely imbricate, sharply carinate, slightly incurved toward apex, coriaceous, slightly nerved, lepidote; flowers sessile. Sepals obtuse, coriaceous, becoming membranaceous toward apex, lepidote, the posterior ones connate for 3-4 mm.
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Distribution
Known from the type collection only.
Mexico North America| Colima Mexico North America|