Flora of North America species comparison

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Tillandsia bartramii

Bartram's airplant, tillandsia de Bartram
Habit Plants densely clustering, flowering to 20–40 cm.
Stems

short.
Leaves

15–30, many-ranked, erect to spreading, gray, 15–40 × 0.2–0.5 cm, coarsely appressed-scaly;

sheath rust-colored toward base, broadly triangular, flat, not forming pseudobulb, 1–2 cm wide;

blade linear-subulate, leathery, margins involute, apex attenuate.
Inflorescences

scape conspicuous, erect, 8–15 cm, 2–4 mm diam.;

bracts densely imbricate, erect;

sheath of bracts narrowing gradually into blade;

spikes erect, simple or palmate, linear, compressed, 2–4 × 1 cm, apex acute; simple or lateral branches 1–5.
Flowers

5–20, conspicuous;

sepals with adaxial pair connate, elliptic, keeled, to 1.5 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex obtuse, surfaces scaly;

corolla tubular, petals erect, violet, ligulate, 3–4.5 cm;

stamens exserted;

stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral.
Fruits

2.5–3 cm.
Floral

bracts imbricate, erect, uniformly red to rose, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), elliptic, keeled apically, 1.4–1.7 cm, thin-leathery, base not visible at anthesis, apex acute, surfaces scaly distally, becoming sparsely scaly toward base, venation slight.

Tillandsia bartramii
Phenology Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in swamps and hammocks
Elevation 0–60 m (0–200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; GA; Mexico (Tamaulipas)
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Source FNA vol. 22.
Parent taxa Bromeliaceae > Tillandsia
Sibling taxa
T. baileyi, T. balbisiana, T. fasciculata, T. flexuosa, T. paucifolia, T. pruinosa, T. recurvata, T. setacea, T. simulata, T. usneoides, T. utriculata, T. variabilis, T. ×floridana, T. ×smalliana
Name authority Elliott
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