Tillandsia ionantha

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Tillandsia Species: ionantha Varieties: ionantha maxima stricta van-hyningii
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Tillandsia ionantha Planchon, 1855

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Distribution:

Northern-Mexico to Nicaragua
terrestrial and epiphytic
450 - 1700 m

 

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Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia ionantha Planchon (1855) Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe 10: 101

(Fl. Serres Jard. Eur.)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia erubescens Wendland, 1854; non Schlechtendahl, 1844
• Pityrophyllum erubescens (Wendland) Beer, 1857
• Tillandsia rubentifolia Poisson & Menet, 1908
• Tillandsia ionantha var. zebrina B.T. Foster, 1982

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 910
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :62
• Gortan (1990) Die Bromelie 2: 43-46
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :27
• Koide (1993) Journal of the Bromeliad Society 43(4): 145, 160-164
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :196
• Ehlers (2000) Die Bromelie 1: 6-9
• Roguenant (2001) Les Tillandsia et les Racinaea :55, 67, 432-434
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :86