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25. Tillandsia nana/calocephala (Send
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- From: derek butcher tillands@senet.com.au
(28. Feb 2000): Are KK87 and KK180 the same? The enclosed are photos of Len's plants. KK87
has leaf blade 8cm x 1.5, Inflorescence centre spike 8cm x1.2, to 9 flowered, floral bract
lepidote, 2.4cm x 8mm. KK180 has leafblade 5cm x1.0, Inflorescence centre spike 5cm x 1cm,
to 4 flowered, floral bract more lepidote, 2,0cm x 8mm. Both have glabrous sepals, all
free, and the posterior keeled. KK87 seems larger than KK180 but otherwise the same. If T.
nana includes T.calocephala then I think it also includes these two collections. Only the
length of the spike has me worried
- From: "Dr. Walter Till" walter.till@univie.ac.at
(Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000): Judging from the photographs, both plants are the same taxon.
But which one? For me the plants seem to be intermediate between T. nana and T. cauligera.
- From: Eric Gouda e.j.gouda@bio.uu.nl
(2/03/2000): Sorry, I couldn't respond earlier, too busy at the moment. I'm not realy into
this group. There is a T.nana going to flower for me. Renate described a species close to
T.cauligera: Tillandsia pucaraensis R. Ehlers Die Bromelie 1/89:9-10 (but I do not have
that journal at hand now, it is to the binder). I think it is closer to the
T.nana/T.macbrideana group.
- The KK stands for Karel Knize from Lima Peru. Len is
seeing what he can find but you never know with Knize. He tells the Germans something and
the Aussies something different to put us off the scent!! The KK87 came as T.mcbridae (
KK's spelling!) My KK87 imported from Knize some 5 years earlier turned out to be T. nana
but Len's is different!
- From: Len Colgan colgan@unisa.edu.au
(Date: 10-3-00): Renate Ehlers and I agree that the Knize numbers
KK#87,#121,#122,#180 are from the same taxon even though there are minor differences
between them (size of leaves and plant, colour of petals). However, none of these seem to
match precisely any of T. nana (calocephala), T. cauligera, T. macbrideana, T.
churinensis, etc. It would be interesting for a botanist to do a thorough investigation of
these groupings to decide whether a revision is warranted and to determine precisely where
these Knize numbers fit into the maze.
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