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.