Ehlers 1995e (Article) Tillandsia

Tillandsia salmonea R. EHLERS spec. nov.

Author(s):—R. Ehlers

Publication:—Die Bromelie 1995(3): 65-68. (1995)

Abstract:—This new species with wonderful colours when flowering was discovered in 1989. lt is growing on rocks together with T. capitata in Mexico, Chiapas. Similar in habit as T. rodrigueziana MEZ, it differs in its fragile leaves, the often simple inflorescence, sometimes compound of few spikes which are twice as long and broad, salmon-coloured and cretaceous; the sepals are larger, more acute and less connected; the petals arc twice als long and dark-violet.

Published names (1):

Tillandsia salmonea