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28. Tillandsia cf.
setacea (Send your reply, using the form)
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- From Eric Gouda (17 May 2000): I've met this species several times, but
never one with data of origin, but I suppose it is from Central America. It keys out to
T.setacea, which normally is much taller and with slender pedunculus. Plant is only 12 cm
tall, infl. always exceeded by the leaves. It does fit many of the T.setacea characters,
but it has a short stout peduncle and petals are about 3 cm long. The sepals are sparsely
lepidote and broadly acute to obtuse and exceeding the floral-bract.
- From Walter Till (Date Thu, 18 May 2000) This could be
tha plant that Renate Ehlers intends to describe as Tillandsia bartramii var. minima.
Possibly the plant comes from Florida. Contact R.E.
- As to the
plant: It must be related to T. bartramii as the lepidote sepals only occur in T.
bartramii, never in T. setacea. Is the colour of the petals red or violet? In the picture
it looks red? It is a pity that you have no origin. Till is right, I wanted to describe
such a plant as T. bartramii var. minima, but so far he never answered my description.
- From Eric Gouda (23 ): No the petals are violet, maybe a little bit toward pinkish, but I would call it
violet. Sepals are only very sparsely lepidote, so the statement 'lepidote' would be to
heavy. According to the size of the flower parts, I would say closer to T.setacea than to
T.bartramii. L.B. Smith says nothing about the indument of the sepals in T.setacea, but
you are probably right about this?! Maybe a more important character are the leaf-sheats,
which are well develloped in T.bartramii and more T.setacea like in this specimen?! Were
is your speciment (type) from?
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