Product information "Tillandsia lepidosepala"
Name: | Tillandsia lepidosepala, L.B.Sm. 1935 |
Synonyms: | Viridantha lepidosepala, (L.B.Sm.), Espejo 2002 |
Etymology: | lepidosepala: lepidus = pretty, beautiful, sepalus = sepals |
Propagation: | seed |
Origin: | Mexico |
Habitat: | Grows epiphytically in large groups, near the cities of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Puebla and Queretaro, |
Notes: | Tillandsia lepidosepala was found as early as 1892 by Pringle on the shores of Lake Cuitzco, Michoacan in Mexico, but was not described until many years later (1935) by Lyman Bradford Smith. |