Tillandsia sodiroi Mez
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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. Sodiro 37-C (holotype B, B photo 1249/4), Valley of Nanegal, Pichincha, Ecuador, May 1902.
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Description
Description - Plant stemless (?), flowering about 1 m high (?). Leaves rosulate, 55 cm long; sheaths ovate, large, castaneous when dry, violet toward apex; blades narrowly triangular, 45 mm wide, glabrous above, sparsely lepidote beneath. Scape stout, terete, subglabrous; scape-bracts erect, very densely imbricate, foliaceous but decreasing upward. Inflorescence pendulous, very densely bipinnate, cylindric-thyrsoid, 10 cm long, 25 mm in diameter, many-flowered; axis stout, glabrous, completely covered; primary bracts ample, strongly concave, coriaceous, even, the lower with short acute blades and exceeding the spikes, the upper subobtuse and shorter than the spikes, the median 5 cm long; spikes sessile, polystichous on the axis, subelliptic, 50 mm long, 25 cm wide, 6-flowered, complanate, the lower and median reflexed to spreading, the upper erect. Floral bracts imbricate, 27 mm long, exceeding the sepals, carinate, incurved especially when young, coriaceous, rigid, even, glabrous; flowers subsessile, 33 mm long. Sepals equally subfree, obtuse, slightly nerved, glabrous, the posterior carinate; petals exceeding the stamens and pistil, the blades 12 mm long.
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Distribution
In forest, 2900-3500 m alt, Ecuador.
Ecuador South America| Pichincha Ecuador South America|