Tillandsia platyrhachis var. alba Rauh & Hirtz.

Taxonomic Change:

• Considered conspecific with the type variety —See Luther & Sieff 1994 p. 34

Comments:

• It is not quite certain if the Ecuadorian plants collected by Schimpf 714 and A. J. Gilmartin 1139 also belong to the var. alba. If so, they are smaller forms.
  
  Some time ago I received from A. Hirtz a color slide of a plant from Peru, labelled T wagneriana, but comparison shows that it is not T wagneriana, but a T. platyrhachis which is very close to the type of T. platyrhachis from Colombia. —See J. Bromeliad Soc.