Tillandsia foliosa M. Martens & Galeotti

Tillandsia foliosa Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad Brux. 10': 119. 1843.
Tillandsia Hahnii Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9; 690. 1896.
Tillandsia Kirchhoffiana " Wittm." Mez. in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 693. 1896. Not T. Kirchhoffiana Wittm. 1889.
7 illondsia modtsia Mez, in Engler, Pflanzenreich 4": 481. 1935.
Plant stemless, 4 dm. high; leaves many in a dense utriculatc rosette, 4-5 dm. long; sheaths broadly ovate or elliptic, 1 dm. long, brown, densely and finely apprcssed-brown-lepidotc; blades linear-triangular, subfiliform-acuminatc, 15 mm. wide at the base, glabrous above, densely pale-appressed-Iepidote below; scape erect or ascending, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, imbricate, elliptic with elongate divergent to reflexed foliaceous blades, chartaceous, lepidote, red; inflorescence compound with simple branches, subcylindric, 15-30 cm. long, dense toward the apex, interrupted toward the base; primary bracts enfolding and concealing the axillary spikes, submembranaceous, the lower ones like the scape-bracts, the upper merely acute; spikes subsessile with a sterile bract at base, narrowly lanceolate in outline, acute, 2-5 cm. long, complanate, 4-6-flowered; floral bracts erect, densely imbricate, elliptic, broadly acute or obtuse, 16-19 mm. long, about equaling the sepals, carinate, subcoriaceous, even, glabrous; flowers subsessile; sepals lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous, even, glabrous, much connate posteriorly; petals tubular-erect, narrow, 4 cm. long, violet; stamens and pistil exserted.
Type locauty: Jalapa, Vera Cruz, altitude 1200 meters. Distribution; Vera Cruz.

Tillandsia foliosa is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is endemic to Mexico.