Tillandsia multicaulis Steud.

Tillandsia multicaulis Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2. 2: 688. 1841
Tillandsia caespitosa Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 54. 1831. Not T. caespilosa LeConte. 1828.
Tillandsia Schlechlendalii Baker, Jour. Bot. 26: 49. 1888.
Vriesea caespitosa E. Morren; Baker, Jour. Bot. 26: 49, as synonym. 1888.
Vriesea Schlechtendalii Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. 14: Beibl. 32: 8. 1891.
Plant stemless; leaves many in a dense rosette, 3—4 dm. long, exceeding the inflorescences, densely but obscurely brown-punctulate-lepidote throughout; sheaths elliptic, 12 cm. long, purple or castaneous on the inside; blades ligulate, acute and apiculate, 25-35 mm. wide; scapes several from the axils of the leaves, erect, 5 mm. in diameter, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, broadly elliptic, acute, incurved at the apex, carinate, 2-4 cm. long with the smallest below, glabrous, even, subcoriaceous, bright-red; inflorescences simple, lanceolate in outline, acute, strongly complauate, very densely 9-12-flowered, 14 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, glabrous; floral bracts like the scape-bracts, densely imbricate, 5 cm. long, 4 cm. wide, much exceeding the sepals, very sharply carinate; flowers subsessile; sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, up to 36 mm. long and 10 mm. wide, submembranaceous, glabrous outside, finely punctulate-lepidote inside, free; petals ligulate, acute, 7 cm. long, erect, blue; stamens slightly exserted, the filaments free, the anthers 10 mm. long; pistil exceeding the stamens; ovary slenderly conic.
Type locality: Jalapa [Vera Cruz].
Distribution: Vera Cruz, British Honduras, Honduras, Costa Rica, and western Panama.

Tillandsia multicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Central America and Mexico (from Chiapas north to Hidalgo).