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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 INCURVA Griseb.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Nachr. Ges. Wiss. G6tt. 1864:15. 1865.
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Synonym
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Tillandsia digitata Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. 9:715. 1896. Tillandsia castaneo-bulbosa Mez & Werckle in Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3:140. 1903.
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Description
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Plant 15-40 cm. long with the inflorescence extended. Leaves many in a dense subbulbous rosette, 15-35 cm. long, very densely and finely appressed- lepidote throughout; sheaths large, distinct, broadly ovate to suborbicular, dark castaneous; blades narrowly triangular, long-acuminate, 2-3 cm. wide, cinereous- lepidote. Scape arching-decurved, slender, short. Scape-bracts barely imbricate, involute, obovate or elliptic, densely lepidote, at least the lower ones caudate. Inflorescence simple or digitate with 2-5 spikes. Primary bracts like the scape- bracts, scarcely larger than the floral bracts. Spikes strict, linear or lance-linear with several sterile bracts at base, acute, 10-24 cm. long, complanate, 7- to 16- flowered. Rhachis flexuous, slender, angled, excavated next the flowers, lepidote at first. Floral bracts erect or slightly divergent, two to three times as long as the internodes but usually exposing most of the rhachis, elliptic, obtuse, 25-35 mm. long, much exceeding the sepals, ecarinate at maturity, red, submembrana- ceous, nerved to almost even, appressed-lepidote to glabrous. Flowers distinctly pedicellate. Sepals free, elliptic, obtuse or apiculate, 15-20 mm. long, soon gla- brous, stramineous. Petals 35 mm. long, yellow. Stamens exserted.
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Distribution
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Southern Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: vicinity of Finca Lerida, alt. 1750 in., Woodson d Schery 223.
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