Tillandsia flexuosa

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Tillandsia Species: flexuosa Forms: flexuosa alba
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Tillandsia flexuosa Swartz, 1788

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Distribution:

Southern-Florida, Greater Antilles, Panama to Northern Southamerica
epiphytic
0 - 480 m

 

 

Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia flexuosa Swartz (1788) Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus  :56

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  Original Description of
  Tillandsia flexuosa

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia tenuifolia sensu Jacquin, 1763; non Linnaeus, 1762
• Tillandsia aloifolia Hooker, 1827
• Tillandsia patens Willdenow ex Schultes f., 1830
• Vriesea aloifolia (Hooker) Beer, 1857
• Vriesea tenuifolia Beer, 1857
• Platystachys patens (Willdenow ex Schultes f) K. Koch, 1874
• Tillandsia flexuosa var. vivivpara André, 1889

Literature:

• Proctor & Read In: Adams (1972) Flowering Plants of Jamaica :48, 50
• Julia & Alain Liogier (1977) Moscosoa 1: 35
• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 977
• Zanoni, Milcíades & Read (1986) Moscosoa 4: 78
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :22
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :194
• Steyermark, Berry & Holst (1997) Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol.3 :663
• Hase (2000) Die Bromelie 3: 76-77
• Roguenant (2001) Les Tillandsia et les Racinaea :368
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :84