a plant quite inconspicuous at flowering time. Typically with a thin cylindric inflorescence with its dark wine-red bracts and the white, prefloral pale violet flowers.
I thank Herb HILL (HILL'S Raingreen Tropicals), Lithia, Florida, for providing the plant.
Note 28 Sept 2004 Harry Luther suggests that this is a natural hybrid between Guzmania monostachys and Tillandsia complanata. Joachim Saul reports never having found it in the vicinity of the type locality —SeeRauh 1973-1991
