Tillandsia adpressa var. miniata Rauh  

plant forming a 30 cm diam cushion, with stolons 10–15 cm long; each plant 10 cm high and 10 cm diam., slightly bulbose at base leaf sheath spoon shaped, distinct, dark brown scaled, 2 cm long, 1 cm wide leaf blade narrow lanceolate, lively green, both sides scattered scales, to 6 cm long, 2 cm wide next to sheath, rolled inwards, the edges weakly waved, tapering to a reflexed tip. inflorescence: peduncle sometimes hanging, often half erect, narrow cylindric, 10–15 cm long, 2 mm thick, laxly brown scaled peduncle bracts bottom ones leaf-like, then 2–3 long, acuminate, underneath dense scaled, top side very scattered scaled peduncle bracts, as long, longer or a little shorter than the internodes inflorescence short, hanging, at the base once-branched, 5–10 cm long, with lax to dense brown scaled rachis with 3–5 (to 7) spirally arranged erect spikes; primary bracts erect, underneath dense, top side scattered brown scales, exceeds or shorter than the spike spike standing apart on the rachis, short stemmed (4 mm long), 1 cm long, 0.7 cm wide, the stem and rachis similarly dense brown scaled, usually 3 flowered but only 2 fertile, the end spike usually 3–5 flowers laxly distichous; flora bracts long, tapering to an unkeeled sharp tip, however the prominent mid nerve in indistinctly keeled, underneath dense to lax brown scales; those of the side spikes shorter than the sepals but those of the end spike as long or longer (3–5mm) flower erect, sessile, 5–6 mm long, appressed to the rachis. flowers: sepals lax to dense brown scaled, the adaxial pair indistinctly keeled, the abaxial ones not keeled; petals 4–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, the tip rounded, becoming a little spread out, shiny citron yellow stamens and style deeply enclosed.