Tillandsia platyrhachis var. alba Rauh & Hirtz.[as Tillandsia platyrhachis var. alba Rauh & von Bismarck]

Observations: —The var. alba differs from the type-plant (diagnosis Mez, after material of Kalkbreyer 1328) in the following characters: ( but not considered sufficient to warrant varietal rank)
Plant much bigger, up to 1.2 m high.
Inflorescence in all parts creamy-white.
Floral bracts smaller; their pouches smaller and the wings not enfolding the adaxial part of the next lower flower.

Edited from : Rauh 1985b. Bromelienstudien (Mitteilung 17). I. Neue und wenig bekannte Arten aus Peru und anderen Ländern .