Gouda 2020f (Article) Tillandsia

A new Tillandsia from Northern Mexico - Tillandsia flavoviolacea

Author(s):—E.J. Gouda

Publication:—DIE BROMELIE 2020(2): 63-67. (2020)

Abstract:—In 1998 we got a plant from the late Jürgen Lautner (B.G. Göttingen) with the name Tillandsia erubescens var. arroyoensis Weber & Ehlers (in Weber 1983). When it first flowered, I suspected it to be a hybrid of T. schiedeana Steudel (1841) and T. baileyi Rose ex Small because of its bicolored petals, which are violet and yellow. Tillandsia schiedeana can have bicolored petals itself (Fig. 5), yellow and colouring reddish toward the base of the exserted part. Then T. chapalillaensis Ehlers & Lautner (2011) was described that has a similar inflorescence and I assumed that it was this new species.

Published names (1):

Tillandsia flavoviolacea