Tillandsia makoyana Baker

Tillandsia makoyana Baker, Handb. Bromel. 189. 1889
Tillandsia cucaensis Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. 14: Beibl. 32: 7. 1891.
Plant stemless, 5-10 dm. high; leaves many in a dense rosette, up to 65 cm. long, densely and finely appressed-cinereous-lepidote throughout; sheaths elliptic-ovate, 12 cm. long, castaneous; blades linear-triangular, caudate-acuminate, 3-5 cm. wide; scape erect, stout, from slightly shorter than to exceeding the leaves; scape-bracts erect, the lower ones lanceolate, linear-laminate, imbricate, the upper ones ovate-lanceolate, acute, sometimes remote; inflorescence simple to amply bipinnate, up to 4 dm. long; primary bracts like the upper scapebracts, scarcely larger than the floral bracts, enfolding the lower half of the sterile base of the axillary branch; spiciform racemes up to 24 cm. long, laxly flowered; rhachis strongly undulate, stout, flattened next the flowers, glabrous; floral bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, shorter than the sepals, about equaling the internodes, coriaceous with a hyaline margin, prominently nerved, ecarinate; flowers erect and closely appressed to the rhachis; pedicels up to 5 mm. long; sepals narrowly elliptic or obovate, obtuse, 25-30 mm. long, very short-connate, coriaceous, even except near the margin, glabrous outside, brown-punctulate-lepidote inside; petals tubular-erect, 5 cm. long, violet or green; stamens and pistil exserted; capsule slenderly cylindric, acute, 6-8 cm. long.
Type locality: "Mexico"; described from cultivation. Distribution: Mexico (?), Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica.

Tillandsia makoyana is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. This species is native to Costa Rica and Mexico.

Tillandsia makoyana là một loài thuộc chi Tillandsia. Đây là loài bản địa của Costa Rica và México.