Wallisia anceps (G. Lodd.) Barfuss & W. Till

Tillandsia anceps hodd. Bot. Cab. pi. 771. 1823
Plaly.lachys anceps Hctr, Uroiiitl, 80. 1857.
Vrituo ancips I.ctnuire, III. Hortic. 6: Mim:. 15. 1859. Tillandsia xiphostachys Griseb. Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Gott. 1864: 14, in part. 1865. Phytarrhha anceps E. Morren. Belg. Hortic. 29: 368. 1879. Vriesea SchhchUndahlii Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. 11: 69. excl. syn. 1889. Vriesea SchlechUndahlH var. alba Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. U: 69. 1889. Tillandsia linealifolia Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 686. 1896.
Plant steraless; leaves numerous, densely rosulate, 15-40 cm. long, equaling or e.xceeding the inflorescence, very densely and minutely pale-appressed-lepidote throughout, green; sheaths triangular-ovate, longitudinally red-striate; blades recurving, narrowly triangular, acuminate 7-12 mm. wide at the base; scape erect, stout, very short and largely hidden by the leaves; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, ovate, acute or the lowest with a stiff erect linear blade, much smaller than the floral bracts, coriaceous, even, glabrous; inflorescence simple, elliptic in outline, strongly complanate, 10-15 cm. long, 55 mm, wide, densely IO-20-flowered, glabrous; floral bracts suberect, densely imbricate, triangular-acute, up to 4 cm. long, much exceeding the sepals, strongly carinate, coriaceous, even, somewhat shiny, green or pale-rose with greenish margins; flowers short-pedicellate; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, 3 cm. long, coriaceous, even, equally subfree, carinate; petals more than twice as long as the sepals, the claw linear, white, the blade spreading, lance-elliptic, acute, blue or rarely while; stamens deeply included, exceeding the style; capsule slenderly cylindric, shorter than the sepals.
Type locality: "Trinidad"; described from cultivation.
Distribution: Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama; also in Trinidad, British Guiana, Venezuela, and Colombia.

Wallisia anceps is a species of flowering plant in the genus Wallisia. This species is native to Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, the Guianas, Venezuela and northern Brazil.