Viridantha zamudioi Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo & López-Ferr    

plant saxicolous, flowering 10–13 cm tall, 15–20 cm in diameter; rosettes acaulescent, spherical in outline, solitary or forming clumps of two to four rosettes. leaves numerous, longer than the inflorescence; sheath cream coloured toward the base on both sides, square to transversely widely oblong, 10–14 mm long, 12–14 mm wide, densely grey lepidote, glabrous at the base on both surfaces; blade densely grey lepidote, linear triangular, 80–100 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, recurved, long attenuate. inflorescence short pedunculate, nested in the center of the rosette, erect, onesbranched, with 2–3 spikes; peduncle conspicuous, 10–20 mm long, fully covered by bracts; peduncle bracts similar to the leaves, longer than the inflorescence but decreasing in size distally, densely grey lepidote; spikes white-greenish, rose to at the apex, erect and appressed to the peduncle, dorsiventrally flattened, elliptic, 28–33 mm long, 17–20 mm wide, 2–4 flowered; floral bracts white greenish to rose, ovate when extended, 18–20 mm long, 8–10 mm wide, acute to acuminate, nerved, carinate, lepidote on both surfaces. flowers distichous, erect and appressed to the rachis; sepals yellowish-green towards the base, pale rose at the apex, lanceolate, 12–15 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, acuminate, the two adaxial ones carinate, glabrous adaxially, scattered lepidote abaxially; petals white in its basal half, to dark green in its apical half, narrowly oblong, 16–17 mm long, ca 2 mm wide, rounded to obtuse. stamens all equal; filament white, filiform, 11–15 mm long; anther black, 2.5–3 mm long. pistil: ovary green, ellipsoid, 3–5 mm long, 2–3 mm in diameter; style white, 10–15 mm long; stigma branches green. fruits not seen.

Edited from : Hernandez et al. 2021. (protologue) Two new species of Viridantha (Tillandsioideae; Bromeliaceae) .