Ehlers 2015a (Article) Tillandsia

Tillandsia riohondoensis - a new species within the relationship of Tillandsia capitata

Author(s):—R. Ehlers

Publication:—Die Bromelie 2015(2): 57-61. (2015)

Abstract:—This plant has been on the market for a number of years and particularly in many American collections. It was sold by Guatemalan dealers as „ Tillandsia sphaerocephala Guatemala“. In German gardens and collections it also occurs under this or other fantasy names, but never, strangely, as T. capitata. There are some offered as very small plants which come from offsets and were often cultivated by using flowering hormones. These plants seem often stemless or short stemmed. At the type locality or when mother plants are old, the plants are long stem-forming and much larger in diameter. The offsets appear, like in Tillandsia harrisii, willingly from the leaf axils along the entire length of the plant.

Published names (1):

Tillandsia riohondoensis