Tillandsia pucaraensis Ehlers[as Tillandsia pucaraensis R.Ehlers]

Observations: —DIFFERS FROM T. DIDISTICHA IN THAT
1- Simple inflorescence and leathery flower bracts
2- Bracts lightly carinate, almost smooth, wider, the back angled to curved, for the most part subglabrous.
3- Filaments erect not plicate.
DIFFERS FROM T. LORENTZIANA IN THAT
1- Leaves appress lepidote.
2- Inflorescence simple.
3- Floral bracts wider and stiffer.
4- Petals smaller.
5 - Filaments not plicate.

DIFFERS FROM T. CAULIGERA
1- Very rigid, succulent appressed lepidote leaves.
2- Stem absent.
3- Scape much shorter.
4- Floral bracts for the most part subglabrous.
5 - Petals white.

Edited from : Ehlers 1989a. Eine neue Tillandsie aus Peru: Tillandsia pucaraensis R. Ehlers spec. nov. .