Comprehensive Description
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Tillandsia ignesiae Mez, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 143. 1903
Stemless, 10-17 cm. high; leaves many in a very dense subbulbous rosette, about equaling the inflorescence, densely and finely tomentose-lepidote throughout with spreading or reflexed cinereous scales; sheaths suborbicular, 8-10 mm. wide; blades linear-subulate, filiform-acuminate, about 1 mm. thick, the outer ones reflexed; scape erect or ascending, very slender; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, elliptic with long filiform blades, membranaceous, densely lepidote; inflorescence simple, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate in outline, acute, 25-55 mm. long, 1 2 mm. wide, strongly complanate, dense; floral bracts erect or slightly spreading toward the apex, triangular-ovate, acuminate, up to 19 mm. long, much exceeding the sepals, four times as long as the internodes, sharply carinate, membranaceous at anthesis, somewhat indurated in fruit, prominently many-nered, densely lepidote; flowers sessile; sepals lanceolate, acute, 12 mm. long, carinate, membranaceous, subtomentose-lepidote especially along the keel, nerved, connate posteriorly for about 1 mm.; petals ligulate, obtuse, 18 mm. long, greenish-yellow when dry; stamens and pistil included; capsule cylindric, stout, short-beaked, 20-25 mm. long.
Type locality: "Mexico, Monte Santa Ignes." DisTRiBtmoN: State of Mexico; Michoac4n or Guerrero.
- bibliographic citation
- Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Tillandsia ignesiae: Brief Summary
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Tillandsia ignesiae is a bromeliad species in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Mexico.
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