Tillandsia guatemalensis L.B.Sm.

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Tillandsia guatemalensis L. B. Smith, Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 29: 281. 1949; nom. nov.

Desc from S&D p721 - 3
Plant stemless, flowering 2.5-15 dm high.
Leaves many in a dense crateriform rosette, 3-4 dm long;
Sheaths conspicuous, elliptic or ovate, 8 cm broad, densely brown punctulate-lepidote; Blades ligulate, acuminate, flat, 3-4 cm wide, thin when dry, subglabrous, glaucous-green.
Scape erect, stout, equaling or exceeding the leaves, glabrous;
Scape-bracts densely imbricate, foliaceous with divergent to spreading blades.
Inflorescence ample, pinnately compound with most of the branches divided to reduced and bipinnate, narrowly sub pyramidal or cylindric, to 8 dm long; axes glabrous, often flexuous toward apex;
Primary bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate with attenuate green blades, red, the lower ones about equaling the axillary branches, the upper ones much shorter;
Branches about 2 cm apart, divergent to spreading, to 15 cm long;
Spikes narrowly lanceolate, acute, subdense, 6-26-flowered, complanate, to 85 mm long, 10 mm wide.
Floral bracts erect, imbricate, elliptic-ovate, obtuse and apiculate, 10-14 mm long, slightly exceeding the sepals, two and a half times as long as the internodes, slightly if at all carinate, subcoriaceous, prominently nerved, glabrous;
Flowers erect, short-stipitate.
Sepals ovate-Ianceolate, obtusish, 9-10 mm long, thin, nerved, glabrous, the posterior ones carinate, short-connate;
Petals linear, obtuse, 15-18 mm long, exceeding the stamens and pistil, blue.
Capsule cylindric, acute, 20-25 mm long.
Type. Warsczewicz in Berlin Hortus s n (holotype B, B photo 1249/30), without exact locality, Guatemala.

Bromeliads in Australia - Tillandsia guatemalensis

Bromeliads in Australia - Tillandsia guatemalensis

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