Tillandsia utriculata |
Tillandsia bartramii |
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giant wild-pine, spreading airplant |
Bartram's airplant, tillandsia de Bartram |
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Habit | Plants single, flowering to 2 m. Stems short. | Plants densely clustering, flowering to 20–40 cm. |
Stems | short. |
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Leaves | 20–75, many-ranked, spreading and recurved, not twisted, gray-green (rarely variegated with linear cream stripes), to 1 m × 1.5–3.5 cm, finely appressed-scaly; sheath pale or slightly rust colored, ovate, not inflated, not forming pseudobulb, 6–15 cm wide; blade linear-triangular, leathery, channeled to involute, apex attenuate. |
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, 20–50 cm, 6–12 mm diam.; bracts densely imbricate proximally, often lax distally, erect to spreading, like leaves but gradually smaller; sheath of bracts narrowing gradually into blade; spikes very laxly 6–11-flowered, erect to spreading, 2–3-pinnate, linear, 15–40 × 10–15 cm, apex acute; branches 5–40 (rarely simple). |
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 | 10–200, conspicuous; sepals free, elliptic, not keeled, 1.4–2 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous; corolla tubular, somewhat bilaterally symmetric, petals erect, slightly twisted, white, ligulate, to 4 cm; stamens exserted; stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral. |
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 | to 4 cm. |
2.5–3 cm. |
Floral | bracts widely spaced, erect, green or tinged purple, exposing most of rachis at anthesis, ovate, not keeled, 1.2–2 cm, leathery, venation slight, base visible at anthesis, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. |
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. |
n | = 25 (Puerto Rico, West Indies). |
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Tillandsia utriculata |
Tillandsia bartramii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Epiphytic on a variety of hosts, often in bright exposed habitats, usually abundant | Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in swamps and hammocks |
Elevation | 0–30 m (0–100 ft) | 0–60 m (0–200 ft) |
Distribution |
FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies
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FL; GA; Mexico (Tamaulipas)
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Source | FNA vol. 22. | FNA vol. 22. |
Parent taxa | Bromeliaceae > Tillandsia | Bromeliaceae > Tillandsia |
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Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 286. (1753) | Elliott |
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