Maury's Tillandsia

Tillandsia mauryana L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 117:31. 1937.
Plants aggregated in dense masses, stemless, 10-12 cm. high; leaves very numerous in a dense rosette, recurving, 7-8 cm. long, densely and coarsely spreading-lepidote; sheaths inconspicuous, small, f erruginous-lepidote ; blades narrowly triangular, acuminate, subpungent, flat, 7 mm. wide, keeled beneath, cinereous-lepidote ; scape very short; scape-bracts foliaceous, densely imbricate, recurving; inflorescence densely digitate from 3-5 spikes; primary bracts lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the axillary spikes, densely lepidote; spikes suberect, lanceolate, acute, 3 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, complanate, densely 6-flowered; floral bracts ovate, acute, 13 mm. long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, sharply carinate, chartaceous, covered with coarse cinereous subspreading scales; flowers subsessile; sepals lanceolate, acute, 12 mm. long, chartaceous, coarsely cinereous-lepidote, the posterior ones connate for 1 mm.; petals linear, obtuse, 14 mm. long, yellow-green when dry; stamens and pistil included.
Type locality: Cafiada de Meztitlan, Hidalgo, altitude 1300-1500 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type collection.