Tillandsia plumosa Baker

Tillandsia plumosa Baker, Jour. Bot. 26: 13. 1888
Tillandiia Magntisiana Wittm. Bot. Jahrb. 11: 66. 1889.
Plants stemless, up to 18 cm. high, densely aggregated; leaves very numerous in a dense globular rosette, up to 18 cm. long, densely tomentose-lepidotc with fine linear spreading cinereous or ferruginous scales; sheaths ovate-oblong, 1-2 cm. long, thin; blades spreading to reflexed, filiform-subulate; scape from II cm. long to almost none, about 2 mm. in diameter, usually curved ; scape-bracts densely imbricate, elliptic with long foliaceous erect blades, densely tomentose-lejjidote, membranaceous, strongly nerved, roseate; inflorescence capitate or corymbose, compound or appearing simple and polystichous-flowercd by the reduction of each spike to a single flower, 3 cm. in diameter; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, exceeding the axillary spikes; spikes erect, broadly lanceolate, 1-3-flowercd, complanate; floral bracts lanceolate, acute, about equaling the sepals, carinate, membranaceous, strongly nerved, very finely tomentose-Iepidote; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 15 mm. long, thin, nerved, lepidote; petals linear, 18 mm. long, yellowish-green; capsule cylindric, short-beaked, 2 cm. long.
TvpB ixk:ai,itv: Puebla.
DiftTKiBUTioN: South-central Mexico, Guatemala, and Ilonduroa.

Tillandsia plumosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. This species is native to Mexico.