Racinaea adpressa (André) J. R. Grant

Tillandsia adpressa Andr^, Enum. Brom^l. 6. 13 D 1888; Rev. Hortic. 60: 566. 16 D 1888.
Calopsis Schumanniana Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. 11: 70. 1889. Tillandsia Schumanniana Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9; 740. 1896.
Plant extremely variable in habit, stemless, 2-5 dm. high; leaves many, rosulate, usually forming an ovoid pseudobulb, 15-30 cm. long, densely punctulate-lepidote throughout; sheaths broadly elliptic-ovate, dark-brown with a narrow hyaline margin, brown-lepidote; blades not over 20 mm. wide at the base, usually much less, narrowly triangular, involute-subulate at least near the apex, erect or recurved, pale-lepidote; scape erector nearly so, ferruginousor palelepidote with minute spreading scales; scape-bracts narrowly ovate-oblong, long-caudate, usually equaling or exceeding the internodes irrespective of the caudate tips, densely appressedlepidote; inflorescence narrow, bipinnate, of 4-12 spikes, erect or arching-pendulous; axis straight to very strongly geniculate, spreading-lepidote, becoming glabrous; primary bracts narrowly ovate-oblong, attenuate to definitely caudate, densely appressed-lepidote, usually equaling or exceeding the spikes, always attaining several of the lower flowers of the spikes; spikes distichous, normally 81 2-flowered ; floral bracts distinctly shorter than the sepals at maturity, ovate, acute, densely tomentose-lepidote ; flowers sessile, spreading, the terminal ones often abortive; sepals scarcely more than 5 mm. long, strongly asymmetric, obovate, usually distinctly keeled, densely spreading-lepidote; capsule cylindric, apiculate, 20-25 mm. long.
Type LOCAUTi': Pichincha, Ecuador.
Distribution; Costa Rica; also in Colombia and Ecuador.

Racinaea adpressa is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. It is native to Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ecuador.