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Tillandsia strobilifera E. Morren; Baker, Handb Bromel. 181. 1889.
Stemless, 4 dm. high; leaves many in a dense crateriform rosette, 4 dm. long; sheaths
elliptic, green or pale-brown; blades narrowly triangular, acuminate, 25 mm. broad, flat for
most of their length, densely appressed-canescent-lepidote especially below; scape erect,
stout, much shorter than the leaves; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous with
elongate divergent to reflexed blades; inflorescence pinnately compound with simple branches,
slenderly pyramidal or cylindric, 1-3 dm. long, 8 cm. in diameter, dense, of 9-1 2 spikes; primary
bracts broadly elliptic-ovate, the lower ones with acuminate recuring blades and exceeding the
axillary spikes; spikes suberect to spreading, subsessile, elliptic or lanceolate, complanale,
4-7 cm. long; floral bracts erect, imbricate and concealing the rhachis, ovate, acute, 25 mm. long,
16 mm. wide, equaling the sepals, carinate, coriaceous, green, even or faintly nerved, densely
lepidote; flowers subsessile; sepals acuminate, membranaceous toward the apex, sharply keeled,
lepidote, the posterior ones connate for 4 mm.; petals linear, tubular-erect; stamens and pistil
exserted.
Type locality: Mexico. Distribction: Central Mexico.
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Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Tillandsia bourgaei Baker, Jour. Bot. 25: 278. 1887
Tillandsia cylindrica S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 26; 155. 1891. Tillandsia Langlasseana Mez, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 142. 1903.
Plant stemless, 5-10 dm. high; rhizome very stout; leaves many in a dense crateriform rosette, 4 dm. long, completely covered with coarse, subspreading, cinereous or pale-brown scales; sheaths ovate; blades linear-triangular, caudate-acuminate, 25 mm. mde at the base; scape erect, 1 cm. in diameter at base; scape-bracts foliaceous with subinflated sheaths and elongate blades often exceeding the inflorescence; inflorescence compound, densely cylindric, 2-3 dm. long; aids sulcate, at first densely lepidote; primary bracts broadly ovate, enfolding the basal halves of the spikes, densely lepidote, often reddish, the lower ones with elongate foliaceous blades, the upper merely apiculate; spikes strict, sessile, densely imbricate, ovate in outline, acute, densely 10-14-flowered, 6-9 cm. long, 25-30 mm. wide, complanate; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate and completely concealing the rhachis, ovate, triangular-acute, 25-30 mm. long, equaling the sepals, five to seven times as long as the internodes, sharply carinate, densely lepidote before anthesis, coriaceous, even or slightly nerved toward the apex; flowers subsessile; sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 6 mm. wide, lepidote, the posterior ones sharply carinate, shortcormate; petals tubular-erect, linear, 4 cm. long; stamens exserted; capsules about equaling the floral bracts.
Type locality: "Rocks near Guadaloupe " (Vera Cruz]. Distribution: Vera Cruz, Guanajuato, and Chiapas.
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Tillandsia mexiae L. B. vSmith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 32. 1937.
Stemless, 25 cm. high; leaves imperfectly known, probably exceeding the inflorescence, very densely appressed-cinereous-Iepidote; sheaths broadly ovate, 5 cm. long, dark-castaneous ; blades narrowly triangular, pale, 18 mm. wide; scape erect, 4 mm. in diameter; scape-bracts foliaceous, erect, very densely imbricate, caudate-acuminate, much exceeding the inflorescence; inflorescence densely compound, ovoid, 8 cm. long, densely cinereous-lepidote; primary bracts broadly ovate, about half as long as the spikes, the lower ones with very narrow linear blades much exceeding the spikes; spikes broadly elliptic, acute, 45 mm. long, 4-flowered, strongly complanate; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate, ovate, acuminate, up to 35 ram. long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, strongly carinate, membranaceous, red; flowers subsessile; sepals ovate, acuminate, 3 cm. long, membranaceous, densely pale-lepidote, posteriorly connate for 5 mm. ; petals and stamens unknown.
Type locality: Arroyo de Ids Homos, Hacienda del Ototal, Sierra Madre Occidental west of San Sebastian, Jalisco, altitude 1500 meters.
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.
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Tillandsia bourgaei

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Tillandsia bourgaei is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae.[2] This species is endemic to South Mexico and central American. This species

was described and the name validly published by John Gilbert Baker in 1887.

Cultivars

  • Tillandsia 'Aristocrat'

References

  1. ^ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 23 June 2017
  2. ^ "Tillandsia bourgaei Baker". Plants of the World Online. The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. n.d. Retrieved July 18, 2020.
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Tillandsia bourgaei: Brief Summary

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Tillandsia bourgaei is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. This species is endemic to South Mexico and central American. This species

was described and the name validly published by John Gilbert Baker in 1887.

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