Tillandsia tectorum E.Morren  (Nom. nov.)

Literature references:

Baensch & Baensch 1994: 205 Belg. Hortic.: 27:328 Brom. J. Queensl.: 41(6):27 Bromtravels (Web) BSA (Web) Die Bromelie: 2003:51: 2005(s5):iii,4,7,12p,14,16,19d,113: 1999:53: 2015(3): 141 FCBS (Web) Gilmartin 1972: 259 Gouda 2018a: 27 Gross 1992: 80 Hromadnik 2005a: 12 Hromadnik 2023c: 24,27,30,32 Isley III 1987: 116,205 Isley III 2009: 129 J. Bromeliad Soc.: 72: 132: 16:31b 23:224b 24:165b 26:245 32:193 48:5 56:4 : 62(1): 23: 64(1):64(1): 22: 66(2): 123: 67(2): 70 Kockel 1995: 37 Labuda Till.-cal.: 1992 Lea 1984: 28 Mak 1996: 28 Manzanares 2002a: 44

Morren Icons: kew 12-341*: kew 12-342*: kew 12-461* New Plantsman: 2:75 Oliva-Esteve 2000a: 251 Padilla 1981: 27 Palmengarten: 52(s):90 Parkhurst 2000: 120,122 Patzelt 1985, 1996: 91 Rauh 1974c: 13:32 Rauh 1981, 1990: Abb. 18 , 189 Rauh 1983c: 43:26 Roguenant 2001: 682 Röth & Weber 1991: 183 Shimizu & Takizawa 1998: 6,12,16,90,91 Shimizu 1992: 29 Smith & Downs 1977: 786,787: 786*: 786,976*: 786* Takizawa 1998 Tropiflora Cargo Rep: 17(1) Wilson 1977: 62,80 Zimmer 1986: 116b

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Comments:

• Key to the species of the T. tectorum- family By Lieselotte Hromradnik in Die Bromelie Sonderheft 5 2005
  
  1.Plant long caulescent................................................................................................ 2
  1. Plant stemless or the stem shorter than the leaves .............................................................. 5
  
  2. Blades densely tomentose covered with long eccentric scales ..................................................3
  2. Blades stiff, appearing smooth because of the densely appressed or subappressed scales,
  inflorescence densely ellipsoid, more or less as long as the leaves ............................................ 4
  3. Leaves 12-20 mm long, subrectangularly spreading, Inflorescence simple, subsessile,
  few-flowered ...............................................................................................T. stellifera
  3. Leaves 12-25 cm long, erect to recurving, inflorescence digitate from some erect to
  spreading spikes, much longer than the leaves ..................... ...............T. tectorum var. tectorum
  
  4. Leaves 1,5-6 cm long, lower part of the leaves densely appressed to the stem, blades mostly
  recurved; Ancash, Peru ........................................... .... T. heteromorpha var. heteromorpha
  4. Leaves (2-) 6-12 cm long, sheaths more or less spreading, Cajamarca, Peru ....................T. heteromorpha var. rauhii
  
  5. Leaves appressed lepidote, involute- subulate, erect or recurved, inflorescence much
  longer than the leaves, subdensely composed from a few erect spikes, or simple ................T. lithophila
  5. Leaves densely covered with narrow, eccentric scales .................................. .........................6
  
  6. Inflorescence simple, rarely a second spike.........................................................................7
  6. Inflorescence compound...............................................................................................9
  
  7. Blades spreading.......................................................................................................8
  7. Blades imbricate, forming a narrow conic tapering rosette, inflorescence shorter than the leaves,
  rarely digitate with a second spike ......................................................................T. tomekii
  
  8. Blades to 8 cm long, spreading lepidote, inflorescence longer than the leaves, scape slender, glabrous,
  spikes to 4 cm long and to 10-flowered, floral bracts glabrous....................................T. balsasensis
  8. Blades to 5 cm long, appressed lepidote, inflorescence shorter than the leaves, scape to 3 cm long,
  densely spreading lepidote, spike 2 cm long, to 4-flowered, floral bracts lepidote... ... T. chusgonensis
  
  9. Inflorescence digitate from some spreading, linear-lanceolate spikes, spikes many-flowered,
  much longer than the primary bracts ..............................................................................10
  9. Inflorescence dense, spikes erect and enfolded by their primary-bracts....................................... 13
  
  10. Plant flowering 30-50 cm high, leaves 15-20 cm long, spikes to 8 cm long, linear-lanceolate
  many-flowered, strongly complanate, primary bracts not longer than the lowest sterile part of the spike
  .................................................................. T. tectorum forma gigantea
  10. Plant flowering not over 25 cm high, spikes to 3 cm long .....................................................11
  
  11. Leaves spreading, rosette globose, spikes not smaller than 8 mm, rounded complanate,
  floral bracts spreading lepidote....................................................................................12
  11. Leaves erect, somewhat recurved, rosette inverted cone-shaped, spikes complanate, to 2,5 cm long, not
  more than 7mm wide, style exceeding the tips of the petals........................................T. oblivata
  
  12. Leaves densely white (like fine needles) lepidote, primary bracts apiculate, half the length of the
  spikes .................................................................................... T. tectorum var. globosa
  12. Leaves subdensely lepidote from scales as fine as a hair, filiform and greenish, the lower primary
  bracts filiform-attenuate and mostly as long as the tips of the spikes or longerT. tectorum var. viridula
  
  13. Inflorescence as long as the leaves, primary bracts much longer than the spikes, lower spikes 2-
  flowered, sepals 8 mm long, petals violet, Ecuador ..................................................T. rupicola
  13. Inflorescence longer than the leaves..............................................................................14
  
  14. Leaves equally spreading, blades scarcely more than 7 cm long, scape and rhachis lepidote,
  primary bracts as long as the spikes, spikes 1-2- flowered, 2 sterile bracts ad base, floral bracts 12 mm
  long, lepidote, sepals nerved, petals violet.............................................................T. reducta
  14. Leaves more or less distinct curling upwards, to 15 cm long, primary bracts shorter than the spikes,
  spikes 2-6- flowered, scape and rhachis glabrous, floral bracts glabrous, longer than the sepals, sepals
  even, petals white with a violet band.......................................................................T. malyi