Tillandsia complanata Benth.

Tillandsia complanata Renth. Bot. Voy. vSulph. 173. 1846
Tillandsia axiUaris Griscb. VI. Brit. W. Ind. 597. 1864.
Plant stemless; leaves many in a dense rosette, 3-4 dm. long or rarely more, mostly exceeding the inflorescences, spotted, streaked, or suffused with dark-purple especially toward the base; sheaths elliptic or narrowly ovate, 10-16 cm. long, densely and minutely 1)rown-ai)prtssedIcpidote; blades ligulate, abruptly acute or subobtuse, apiculate, 3-5 cm. wide, obscurely punctulatc-Iei)idote, sf>on glabrous above; scapes many from the axils of the leaves, a.sceiiding, 1-2 mm. in diameter alKivc the flattened base, glabrous; scape-bracts numerous, erect, usually imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, subchartaceous, glabrous or subglabrous; inflorescences simple, lanceolate or linear in outline, acute, densely 4-24-flowercd, up to 8 cm. long, 15-20 mm. wide, usually complanate, glabrous; floral bracts erect, imbricate, elliptic, obtuse, 15-25 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, even or prominently nerved, ecarinate, often rose or purple; flowers subsessile; sepals lanceolate, acute, 10-15 mm. long, subcoriaceous, the posterior ones carinate and usually much connate; petals ligulate, about 2 cm. long, rose, purple, or blue, the blade suberect, obtuse; stamens and pistil slightly shorter than the petals; capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 4 cm. long.
Type locality: Ecuador. _ .
Distribution: Costa Rica; West Indies; also from British Guiana to Peru and Bolivia.

Tillandsia complanata is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Bolivia, Peru, northern Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela and Ecuador.