Tillandsia brachyphylla Baker

Literature references:

BSA (Web) Die Bromelie: 1986:13: 1996(s):34: 2007:40: 1982:151d Ehlers 1997: 34 FCBS (Web) Mez 1894: 112 Oliva-Esteve 2000a: 205 Rauh 1981, 1990: Abb. 86 Roguenant 2001: 232 Smith & Downs 1977: 807,809: 807*

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Comments:

• Comments:
  The plant is extremely rare and there are only few examples represented in collections. It is relatively common in its natural habitat, the rock walls however are often hundreds of meters almost vertical and so the plant is well protected from the collectors.
  
  The plants with the name T. brachyphylla currently being grown are likely to be some other small wrong named tillandsias. Another name which has been confused with T. brachyphylla is the so-called T. regnellii which is going to be called now T. roseiflora. T. brachyphylla in the second edition of the book "Bromelien" by Werner Rauh and in the Journal of the Bromeliad Society, July /Aug. 1980, title page (photograph by Werner Rauh) and on page 13 of " The Colourful Bromeliads" by Victoria Padilla is in fact now T. roseiflora. —See Ehlers 1997