Tillandsia punctulata Schltdl. & Cham.

Tillandsia punctulata Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 6: 53. 1S31
Tillandsia tricolor "Schlecht. & Cham."; E. Morren, Belg. Hortic. 29: 162. 1879. Not T. tricolor
Schlecht. & Cham. 1831. Tillandsia melanopus E. Morren; Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 680. 1896.
Plant stemless, 25-45 cm. high; leaves many in a dense rosette, equaling or exceeding the inflorescence but usually recurving, very densely and minutely appressed-Iepidote throughout; sheaths broadly ovate or elliptic-oblong, 4-8 cm. long, deep-castaneous; blades linear-triangular, filiform-acuminate but wnth blunt apex, 5-10 mm. wide at the base, flat, complicate, involute or flat; scape erect; scape-bracts foliaceous but red-brown, all linear-laminate, usually subinvolucrate below the inflorescence; inflorescence simple and distichous-flowered or densely digitate from 2-5 spikes; primary bracts resembling the upper scape-bracts but very short-laminate, less than half as long as the axillary spikes; spikes sessile, ovate or lanceolate in outline, acute, 7-10 cm. long, 25-35 mm. wide, stout, slightly complanate; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate, broadly ovate, acute, up to 4 cm. long, exceeding the sepals, subinflated, strongly carinate, coriaceous with a broad membranaceous margin, nerved, minutely appressed-Iepidote; flowers subsessile; sepals lance-oblong, acute, 30-35 mm. long, complicate, alate, subcoriaceous, densely and minutely brown-appressed-lepidote ; petals tubular-erect, ligulate, broadly acute or obtuse, white near the apex, violet below; stamens and pistil long-exserted ; capsule acute, 3 cm. long.
Type locality: Jalapa [Vera Cruz].
Distrlbution: Puebla and Vera Cruz, and southward to Costa Rica; also in Surinam (Mez).

Tillandsia punctulata is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Central America (all 7 countries) and Mexico.