Tillandsia cauliflora Mez & Wercklé

Tillandsia cauliflora Mez & Werckl^; Mez, Bull. Herb. Boiss
II. 5: 100. 1905.
Stemless, about 3 dm. high; leaves about 10 in a dense utriculate rosette, 2 dm. long, erect or suberect, bright-red when living; sheaths elliptic, large and conspicuous, densely and minutely punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acuminate with a reflexed tip, 2 cm. wide, subglabrous, chartaceous when dry; scape erect, very short; scape-bracts strict, densely imbricate, foliaceous, red; inflorescence few-flowered, paniculate, cylindric, 13 cm. long; primary bracts foliaceous but somewhat narrower, much exceeding the axillary spikes; spikes densely 1-2-flowered, lanceolate in outline, acute at both ends, 4 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, complanate, bearing a sterile bract at base; floral bracts imbricate and concealing the axis, subtriangular, acuminate, 3 cm. long, much exceeding the sepals, sharply carinate, slightly incurved toward the apex, even, glabrous, pergamaceous ; flowers subsessile, erect, 57 mm. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, 22 mm. long, glabrous, even, equally subfree, the posterior ones carinate; petals obtuse, exceeding the stamens.
Type locality: Costa Rica.
Distribution: Known only from the type collection.

Tillandsia cauliflora is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Costa Rica.

Tillandsia cauliflora là một loài thuộc chi Tillandsia. Đây là loài bản địa của Costa Rica.