Tillandsia spiculosa var. stenoglossa

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Tillandsia spiculosa var. stenoglossa

Description

Plant with a tubular or utriculate, 15-50 cm tall rosette. Leaves 11-47 cm long, the outer ones often much reduced and sheath-like; sheaths suborbicular to oblong, densely imbricate, 6-24 cm long, very densely brown-appressed-lepidote; blades erect, ligulate or narrowly subtriangular, often undulate near the base, rounded or obtuse, but sometimes attenuate. Inflorescence with the branches often turning to one side (secund); scape sparsely lepidote or floccose; axis often curved; rachis persistently lepidote. Sepals 4.5-5 mm long, subdensely lepidote throughout.

Distribution

Guyana present, Southern America: Venezuela (Venezuela present)
Guayana Highland of Venezuela, Guyana and adjacent Brazil. 22 collections studied.

Cultivation

Very interesting plant, not known from cultivation, and probably not easy to grow.

Notes

The habit of this species is very variable, and it is difficult to believe that the extreme forms belong to the same species. On the other hand, some intermediates are difficult to place under one or the other variety.