Tillandsia glossophylla L. B. Sm.

Tillandsia glossophylla L. B. Smith; Yuncker, Field Mus. Ptibl
Bot. 17: 319. 1938.
Stemless, 4 dm. high; leaves in a dense cyathiform rosette, 2 dm. long, very minutely and obscurely brown-lepidote; sheaths elliptic, ample, I dm. long; blades ligulate, acute, 25 mm. wide, flat, green or tinged with purple; scape erect, 5 mm. in diameter; scape-bracts erect, cicn.sely imbricate, broadly ovate, apiculate or the lowest acuminate, glabrous, nerved; inflorescence simple, linear-lanceolate, acute, 18 cm. long, 25 mm. wide, complanate; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate, broadly elliptic, obtuse, 3 cm. long, about equaling the sepals, ecarinatc, flesh-pink, dull, glabrous, nerved, subcoriaceous ; flowers subsessile; sepals narrowly elliptic, obtuse, 27 mm. long, subchartaceous, strongly nerved, glabrous, free; petals linear, the blades narrowly elliptic, 1 cm. long; stamens included; style elongate; capsules barely exceeding the sepals.
Type locality: Ravine near El Achote, above the plains of Siguatepeque, Comayagua, Hondura3, altitude 1350 meters.
Distribution; Known only from the type collection.