Here's a photograph from my trip to the glasshouses at Montréal Botanical Garden in late January. Tillandsia lindenii, or blue-flowered torch, was planted / placed in numbers throughout the tropical rainforests conservatory. Native to Ecuador and Peru, the epiphytic Tillandsia lindenii can be found growing on tree trunks, tree hollows and even rocks & sandy soils in its native rainforest habitat.

Tillandsia lindenii is considered to have a "paddle-shaped inflorescence" by bromeliad collectors (source: Tillandsias with Paddle-shaped Inflorescences). The paddles are composed of dense, flattened pink bracts from which the large, bluish flowers emerge. A closely related species, Tillandsia cyanea, differs somewhat, including that its flowers are (usually) not white-throated and the paddles are differently-shaped (for more, read the article on Tillandsia cyanea and her Big Sister -- Tillandsia lindenii (PDF)).

The epithet lindenii, I believe (haven't been able to track down a reference), commemorates the Belgian botanist and explorer Jean Jules Linden.