Flores-Cruz 2008 (Article) Tillandsia

Una Especie Nueva De Tillanosia (Bromeliaceae) De Guerrero, Mexico

Author(s):—M. Flores-Cruz & M.V. Diego-Escobar

Publication:—Boletín de la Sociedad Botanica de Méxique 82: 15-20. (2008)

Abstract:—Tillandsia fascifolia is described and illustrated from plants collected in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. The new taxon is similar to species such as T. bartramii, T. chaetophylla, T. eistetteri, T. jestucoides, T. juncea, T. ortgiesiana, T. pentasticha and T. setacea. However, characters such as an orange color of floral bracts, green sepals at base and orange at apex and white petals at
base and pale green at apex. It grows as an epiphyte over oak trees in cloud forests and pine-oak forests.
Tillandsiajascijolia.

Keywords:—epiphyte, cloud forest, montane forest, pine-oak forest

Published names (1):

Tillandsia fascifolia