Tillandsia butzii Mez

Tillandsia butzii Mez, in Engler, Pflanzenreich 4'=: 636. 1935
riUanrfjiorariVsa/aSchlecht. Linnaea 18: 429. 1844. Not T. variegala Veil. 1827.
Plant stemless, 2-3 dm. high; leaves few in a bulbous rosette, up to 5 dm. long, densely and finely pale-appressed-lepidote throughout, the margins at first ciliate %Tith coarse scales; sheaths suborbicular, inflated, forming a pseudobulb 25-45 mm. in diameter, dark-browTi or purple with numerous large, pale-green, often confluent spots; blades involute-subulate, filiformacuminate, 3 mm. in diameter, contorted; scape erect, slender; scape-bracts foliaceous, imbricate; inflorescence digitate from a few subequal spikes or rarely simple; primary bracts subfoliaceous, concolorous, the broadly ovate sheath much shorter than the axillary spike, the linear blade often much exceeding it ; spikes erect to spreading, linear in outline, acute.strongly complanate, 6-8 cm. long, about 1 cm. wide at anthesis, 5-8-flowered with I or 2 sterile bracts at base; floral bracts erect, imbricate, ovate, acute, 20-28 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, much exceeding the sepals, three to four times as long as the internodes, subcoriaceous, densely paleappressed-lepidote, prominently ner^-ed and sometimes incurved or slightly carinate toward the apex; flowers subsessile; sepals narrowly elliptic, narrowly obtuse, 12-15 mm. long, coriaceous, glabrous; petals tubular-erect, 30-35 mm. long, iolet; stamens and pistil e.serted; capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, short-beaked, 3 cm. long.
Type locality; Jalapa [Vera Cruz].
Distribution: Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Tillandsia butzii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Costa Rica and Mexico.