Comprehensive Description
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Tillandsia leiboldiana Schlecht. Linnaea 18: 414. 1844
Tillandsia xiphophylla Baker, Jour. Bot. 26: 143. 1888.
Tillandsia phyllostachya Baker, Jour. Bot. 26: 143. 1888.
Tillandsia Asclursoniana Wittm. Bot. Jahrl). 11: 68. 1889.
Tillandsia rhodochlamys Baker, Handb. Brorael. 203. 1889.
Tillandsia sparsiflora Baker, Jour. Bot. 28: 306. 1890.
Tillandsia coccinea Sess^ & M09. Fl. Mex. ed. 2. 81 . 1894.
Tillandsia lilacina Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 806. 1896.
? Vriesia Sieberliana Sander; Bois, Jour. Soc. Hort. Fr. III. 21: 665. 1899.
Stemless, 2-6 dm. high; leaves many in a crateriform rosette, 1-3 dm. long; sheaths ovate, 6-8 cm. long, flat, brown-punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acute, flat, up to 25 mm. wide, very obscurely pale-lepidote, often spotted or tinged with purple; scape erect or rarely curved, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, large, foliaceous but the upper ones with bright-red bases; inflorescence compound with simple branches, laxly pyramidal or subcylindric, 1-3 dm. long; axis slender, glabrous; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts, all but the uppermost much exceeding and closely enfolding the axillary spikes, obscurely lepidote toward the apex, the upper ones wholly bright-red; spikes sessile, divergent to spreading, linear to lanceolate, acute, complanate, densely 3-7-flowered, 3-6 cm. long; rhachis straight, slender, angled, glabrous; floral bracts erect, imbricate, narrowly ovate, acute, 2 cm. long, exceeding the sepals, 4 times as long as the internodes and usually concealing the rhachis, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, prominently nerved, carinate and often dark-purple toward the apex, glabrous outside, punctulate inside; flowers subsessile; sepals lance-oblong, up to 16 mm. long, thin, glabrous; petals linear, up to 3 cm. long, violet; stamens included; capsules slenderly cylindric, acute, about equaling the floral bracts.
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution: Vera Cruz, British Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
- bibliographic citation
- Lyman Bradford Smith. 1938. (XYRIDALES); BROMELIACEAE. North American flora. vol 19(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Tillandsia leiboldiana: Brief Summary
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Tillandsia leiboldiana is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Central America and Mexico.
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