Tillandsia macrochlamys Baker

Tillandsia macrochlamys Baker, Jour. Bot. 26: 142. 1888
Stemless, 3-5 dm. high; leaves rosulate, 35 cm. long; sheaths elliptic, nearly 15 cm. long, brown, iolet toward the apex, densely and minutely brown-appressed-lcpidote; blades very narrowly triangular, acuminate, 27 mm. wide, densely pale-appressed-lepidote on both sides, flat, especially the inner ones red; scape ascending; scape-bracts densely imbricate, subfoliaceous with blades up to 3 dm. long, red; inflorescence compound with simple branches, densely ellipsoid, substrobilate, 15-20 cm. long; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, much exceeding the axillary spikes; spikes subsessile, 1-flowered to densely 4-flowered with a sterile bract at the base, 4 cm. long, 2 cm. wide; floral bracts ovate-elliptic, acute, 20-25 mm. long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, sharply carinate, coriaceous, glabrous; flowers erect, subsessile; sepals lance-ovate, acute, coriaceous, glabrou.i, the posterior ones carinate, short-connate; petals tubular-erect, 35 mm. long; stamens and pistil exserted.
Type locality: Central Mexico. Distribution: Sinaloa and central Mexico.

Tillandsia macrochlamys is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. This species is endemic to Mexico.