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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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Species
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TILLANDSIA PUNCTULATA Schlecht. & Cham.
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Linnaea 6:53. 1831.
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Synonym
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Tillandsia tricolor sensu E. Morr. in Belg. Hortic. 29:162. 1879, non Schlecht. & Cham. 1831. Tillandsia melanopus E. Morr. ex Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:680. 1896.
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Description
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Plant 25-45 cm. high. Leaves many in a dense rosette, equaling or exceeding the inflorescence but usually recurved, densely and minutely appressed-lepidote; sheaths broadly ovate to elliptic-oblong, 4-8 cm. long, deep castaneous; blades narrowly triangular, filiform-acuminate but with blunt apex, 5-10 mm. wide. Scape erect. Scape-bracts foliaceous but red-brown, all linear-laminate, usually subinvolucrate below the inflorescence. Inflorescence simple and distichous- flowered or densely digitate from 2-5 spikes. Primary bracts like the scape-bracts but very short-laminate, less than half as long as the spikes. Spikes sessile, ovate or lanceolate, acute, slightly complanate, 7-10 cm. long, 25-35 mm. wide. Floral bracts densely imbricate, broadly ovate, acute, to 4 cm. long, exceeding the sepals, subinflated, carinate, coriaceous with broad membranous margin, nerved, minutely lepidote. Flowers subsessile. Sepals lance-oblong, acute, 30-35 mm. long, compli- cate, alate, densely and minutely lepidote. Petals tubular-erect, 4-6 cm. long, white near apex, violet below. Stamens exserted. Capsule cylindric, acute, 3 cm. long.
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Distribution
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Southern Mexico, Central America, Surinam.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: 1883, Pfau; Volcain de Chiriqui, Boquete District, alt. 2100 m., Davidson 965; vicinity of Casita Alta, Volcain de Chiriqui, alt. ca. 1500-2000 m., Woodson, Allen & Seibert 991; vicinity of Finca Lerida, alt. 1750 m., Woodson & Schery 226.
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