NOTE: Tillandsia intumescens L.B. Smith and T langlasseana Mez are treated by L.B. Smith (1977) as two different species. He distinguished var. intumescens with blades of the primary bracts exceeding the lower spikes and var. brevilamina with blades of the primary bracts all much exceeded by the spikes. But the drawings published in his monograph show the spikes of both varieties with very short primary bracts with no lamina, both shorter than the stipe of the spike. In her dissertation in 1983 Sue Gardner treated T intumescens as a synonym of T langlasseana. —SeeEhlers & Koide 1995bp. 45(1): 20
