Tillandsia lepidosepala L. B. Sm.

Tillandsia lepidosepala L. B. Smith, Proc. Am Acad. 70: 155. 1935.
Plants stemless or very short-caulescent, often aggregated in dense masses; leaves rosulate, up to 15 cm. long, covered with slightly spreading cinereous scales; sheaths broadly ovate or suborbicular, not at all inflated, 10-15 mm. long; blades erect or spreading, linear-triangular, acuminate, 7 mm. wide at the base, involute; scape short, almost hidden by the leaves; scapebracts erect, densely imbricate, foliaceous, about equaling the inflorescence; inflorescence simple and distichous-flowered or rarely with a small second spike and primary bract like the upper scape-bracts, exceeded by the leaves; spikes 3-5 cm. long, 2-5-flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, acute, 20-35 mm. long, equaling or exceeding the sepals, three to four times as long as the internodes, submembranaceous, not at all carinate, densely cinereous-lepidote ; flowers sessile; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, up to 20 mm. long, strongly nerved, densely lepidote, free, the lateral ones carinate; capsule cylindric, short-beaked, about equaling the floral bracts.
Type locality: Near Lake Cuitzco, Michoac^n. Distribution : Hidalgo, Michoac&n, and Puebla.

Tillandsia lepidosepala is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Mexico.