Tillandsia aeranthos

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Anoplophytum Species: aeranthos Varieties: aeranthos aemula alba albeobracteata flava rosea
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Tillandsia aeranthos (Loiseleur) L.B. Smith, 1943

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Distribution:

Southern-Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Northeastern-Argentina
epiphytic, saxicolous
near sealevel

 

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Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Basionym: Pourretia aeranthos Loiseleur (1821) Herbier général de l'amateur, contenant la description, l'histoire, propriétés et la culture des végétaux utiles et agréables 5: pl. 304

(Herb. Gen. Amateur)

Tillandsia aeranthos (Loiseleur) L.B. Smith (1943) Lilloa 9: 200

(Lilloa)

Synonyms:

• Pourretia aëranthos Loiseleur, 1821
• Tillandsia dianthoidea Rossi, 1825
• Tillandsia bicolor Brongniart, 1829
• Tillandsia stricta sensu Lindley, 1830; non Solander, 1813
• Anoplophytum aëranthus (Loiseleur) Beer, 1857
• Anoplophytum dianthoideum (Rossi) Beer, 1857
• Tillandsia unca Grisebach, 1874
• Tillandsia microxiphion Baker, 1893

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 833
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :12
• Teller (1991) Die Bromelie 1: 12-14
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :5
• Roguenant (2001) Les Tillandsia et les Racinaea :177-178
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :78
• Klein Varella (2011) Die Bromelie 1: 16-23