Tillandsia grandis

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Pseudalcantarea Species: grandis
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Tillandsia grandis Schlechtendal, 1844

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Distribution:

Southern-Mexico to Nicaragua
saxicolous, rarely epiphytic
850 - 1500 m

 

Images:

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  Flowering plant
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  bud in the morning before the anthesis
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  bud in the afternoon before the anthesis
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  flower next morning just opened
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  single flower

Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia grandis Schlechtendal (1844) Linnaea 18: 424-426

(Linnaea)

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Synonyms:

• Tillandsia viridiflora sensu L.B. Smith, 1938; non Baker, 1888

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2) :1020
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :25
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :22
• Beaman & Judd (1996) Brittonia 48(1) :1-19
• Chazaro (1996) Journal of the Bromeliad Society 46(3) :99-102, 144
• Luther & Sieff (1997) Selbyana 18(1) :113
• Roguenant (2001) Les Tillandsia et les Racinaea :394-395
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :85