Tillandsia rhomboidea André

Tillandsia acostae Mez & Toiiduz; Mez, Repert. vSp
Nov. 14: 252. 1916.
Plant stemless, 20-25 cm. high; leaves many in a dense subspreading rosette, about equaling the inflorescence, rigid, very densely and minutely appressed-lepidote throughout; sheaths elliptic-oblong, 3-4 cm. long, dark-castaneous ; blades lineartriangular, acuminate, 10-15 mm. wide at the base, involute-subulate toward the apex, pungent; scape erect, short and much obscured by the leaves, stout; scape-bracts erect, involute, densely imbricate, foliaceous, subinflated; inflorescence simple or digitate from 2 subequal sessile spikes; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts but not laminate, scarcely longer than the floral bracts; spikes linear in outline, acuminate, terete, 7-14 cm. long, 2 cm. in diameter; floral bracts erect, very densely imbricate, suborbicular, apiculate, 2 cm. long, exceeding the sepals, inflated, carinate toward apex, coriaceous, even, glabrous; flowers subsessile; sepals lanceolate, acute, 14 mm. long, coriaceous, even, glabrous, much connate posteriorly; petals tubular-erect, 35 mm. long; stamens exserted for 10 mm.
TTE uoc.LtTY: Near San Ramon. Costa Rica, altitude 1200-1400 meters. Distribution; Costa Rica.

Tillandsia rhomboidea is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae, native to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, southeastern Mexico and Venezuela. It was first described by André in 1888.