Tillandsia heterophylla É. Morren

Tillandsia heterophylla E. Morren, Belg. Hortic. 23: 138. 1873
TiUandsia virginalis E. Morren, Belg. Hortic. 30: 238. 1880.
Plant stemless, 5-8 dm. high; leaves many in a dense infundibuliform rosette, 4 dm. long, pale-green, farinaceous below when living; sheaths broadly elliptic, 15 cm. long, very finely brown-punctulate ; blades ligulate, acute, 4-5 cm. wide, obscurely punctulate below, glabrous and shiny above; scape erect, relatively slender; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, elliptic, acute or the lowest foliaceous-laminate ; inflorescence simple or pinnately few-branched; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, scarcely larger than the floral bracts; spikes erect, oblong-lanceolate in outline, acute, 16-20 cm. long, 6 cm. wide, complanate; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate, broadly elliptic, acute, 5 cm. long, 3 cm. wide, much exceeding the sepals, 3-4 times as long as the internodes, sharply carinate, coriaceous, even, glabrous or with a slight bloom when living; flowers subsessile; sepals narrowly elliptic, acute, 4 cm. long, 14 mm. wide, prominently nerved, glabrous outside, punctulate-lepidote inside, the posterior ones sharply carinate, ver>short-connate; petals 9 cm. long, white, flaccid after anthesis, the claw oblong, the blade elliptic, obtuse; stamens shorter than the petals; anthers linear, 12 mm. long, obtuse, attached just above the base; style elongate; capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 4 cm. long; seeds with a short apical appendage.
Type locality: Mexico. Distribution: Vera Cruz.

Tillandsia heterophylla is a species of evergreen flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. It is endemic to Mexico.