Tillandsia subulifera Mez

Plant 15-19 cm. high. Leaves few in a distinct but slenderly cylindric pseudobulb, erect, the inner ones to 18 cm. long, the outer greatly reduced, appressed-canescent-lepidote, concolorous or with faint white cross-bands; sheaths about half as long as the blades, ample; blades linear, abruptly acute or obtuse, 5 mm. wide, complicate, angled. Scape erect, slender, largely concealed by the leaves. Scape-bracts im-bricate, nerved, densely lepidote. Inflorescence simple, oblong or linear, 5-7 cm. long, distichously 4-to 6-flowered. Axis slender, geniculate, mostly exposed, appressed-lepidote. Floral bracts erect, elliptic, broadly acute, 2 cm. long, shorter than the sepals, incurved and somewhat carinate toward apex, nerved, appressed-lepidote. Flowers short-pedicellate. Sepals free, elliptic, narrowly obtuse, 22 mm. long, nerved, lepidote. Petals tubular-erect, 32 mm. long, yellow or white when dry. Stamens exserted. Capsule slenderly cylindric, 6 cm. long.

Can be grown by seedlings.