Tillandsia selleana Harms

Tillandsia selleana Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart Berlin 10: 799. 1929.
Stemless, 2-5 dm. high; leaves in a dense crateriform rosette, 15-22 cm. long; sheaths broadly elliptic, distinct, 6-8 cm. long, very finely brown-punctulate-lepidote, often purple toward apex; blades ligulate, acuminate, flat, 2-3 cm. wide, glabrous above, very inconspicuously punctulate-lepidote below; scape erect, slender, very short, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, densely imbricate, lanceolate, acuminate; inflorescence broadly pyramidal, laxly comi)ountl with simple branches or the lower ones rarely somewhat divided, exceeding the leaves, 12-35 cm. long; axis nearly straight, glabrous; lower primary bracts like the scape-bracts, their blades exceeding the axillary spikes, the upper primary bracts ovate and much shorter than the spikes; spikes sessile, divergent to spreading, linear-lanceolate, acute, densely 4-6-flowered with several sterile bracts at base, up to 8 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, complanate; rhachis slightly flexuous, glabrous; floral bracts erect, imbricate, broadly lanceolate or lance-ovate, acute or apiculate, 15-20 mm. long, exceeding the sepals, two and a half times as long as the internodes, ecarinate, subchartaceous, prominently nerved, glabrous; flowers subsessile; sepals oblong, broadly acute or obtuse, 12-13 mm. long, free; capsule cylindric, short-beaked, 20-25 mm. long.
TvPB locality: Massif dc la Sellc, Nouvellc Toiiraine, in forest, near roatl to Morno I, a Visile, Haiti, altitude 1700 meters. Distributio.n; Haiti.