Tillandsia compacta Griseb.

Tillandsia compacta Griseb. Nachr. Ges. Wiss Gott. 1864: 18. 1865.
Steraless, 3-5 dm. high; leaves about 20 in a narrowly crateriform rosette, up to 4 dm. long; sheaths broadly ovate, 1 dm. long, pale-brown or purple, brown-punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, rounded-apiculate, 3-4 cm. wide, flat; scape curved, 4 mm. in diameter; scape-bracts erect, imbricate and wholly concealing the scape, broadly elliptic, acute, punctulate-lepidote, red toward the apex; inflorescence nodding, pinnately compound with simple branches, dense at least toward the apex, ovoid tosubcylindric, 6-18 cm. long; axis angled, glabrous; primary bracts broadly elliptic, acute, equaling or exceeding the lower spikes, even, subglabrous; spikes sessile, erect to divergent, ovate or lanceolate, densely 5-10-flowered, complanate, 3-5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide; floral bracts erect, imbricate, broadly ovate, acute, carinate, 18-23 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, three to five times as long as the internodes, even or somewhat nerved, coriaceous, glabrous; flowers subsessile; sepals lanceolate, acute, 14—16 mm. long, coriaceous, even, glabrous, the posterior ones connate for three-fourths of their length; petals 2 cm. long; capsule prismatic, acute, 3 cm. long.
Type locality: Venezuela.
Distribution; Eastern Cuba and Haiti; also in Venezuela.

Tillandsia compacta is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Cuba, Hispaniola, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador.

Tillandsia compacta là một loài thuộc chi Tillandsia. Đây là loài bản địa của Bolivia, Venezuela và Ecuador.