Tillandsia aeranthos
Tillandsia (Anoplophytum) aeranthos (Loiseleur) L. B. Smith (1943)
March 17th, 2022 (Left: 3rd day, Right: 17th day)
- The pendulous inflorescence grows from the growing point.
- Unbranched.
- The inflorescence continued to grow long during the flowering period.
- Inflorescence: L 35 - 40 mm at the start of flowering and L 95 - 110 mm at the end
- Peduncle: L 0 - 5 mm at the start of flowering and L 50 - 80 mm at the end, D 3 mm
Smith and Downs (1974, 1977)
- Scape
- well developed, erect, slender, glabrous
- Scape-bracts
- imbricate, elliptic with linear blades, subinflated, membranaceous, rose, appressed-lepidote.