Tillandsia turneri Baker
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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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Description
Description - Plant stemless, 5 dm high. Leaves many in a funnelform rosette, 2-5 dm long, covered with fine appressed scales; sheaths elliptic, large, brown-lepidote; blades narrowly triangular, straight, flat, 3-4 cm wide, cinereous-lepidote. Scape straight, stout; scape-bracts densely imbricate, foliaceous. Inflorescence bipinnate, ovoid, ellipsoid, or subcylindric, 10-14 cm rarely to 30 cm long, 6-7 cm in diameter; primary bracts broadly elliptic, the lower almost equaling to exceeding the spikes and with foliaceous blades, the upper shorter and apiculate; spikes lanceolate, 4-6 cm long, complanate. Floral bracts densely imbricate, ovate, acute, 18-30 mm long, carinate, even to nerved, glabrous or slightly lepidote toward apex; flowers subsessile. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 13-20 mm long, carinate and much connate posteriorly; petals erect, violet; stamens included.