Tillandsia biflora Ruiz & Pav.

Tillandsia biflora R. & P. Fl. Per.
Diaphoranthcma biflora Beer, Bromcl. 156. 1857.
Anoplophytum violaceum Beer, Bromel. 266, nomen nudum. 1857.
Tillandsia telranlha "R. & P." Griseb. Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Giitt. 1864: 18. 1865. Not T. Utrantha
R. & P. 1802. Tillandsia Grisebachiana Baker, Jour. Bot. 26: 143. 1888.
Stemless, up to 3 dm. high; leaves utriculate-rosulate, 2 dm. long, obscurely punctulatelepidote, often purple-mottled; sheaths ovate, large; blades ligulate, 2 cm. wide, acute; scape slender, usually ctirved, its bracts foliaceous, densely imbricate; inflorescence densely bipinnate or rarely reduced to a single polystichous spike, ovoid, glabrous or obscurely punctulate-lepidote; primary bracts broadly ovate, thin, inflated, exceeding the lower and middle spikes, the lower acuminate, the upper apiculate; spikes laxly 1-3-flowered, short-stipitate; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse or rarely broadly acute, much shorter than the sepals, carinate, strongly nerved, membranaceous; flowers suberect, 2 cm. long; sepals oblong, obtuse or rarely broadly acute, 1 21 5 mm. long, subfree, carinate, nerved ; petals ligulate, lavender ; stamens and pistil included .
Type locality: Mufia, Peru.
Distkibution: Costa Rica; also from Venezuela to Peru and Bolivia.

Tillandsia biflora is a species in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Panama, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ecuador.