Tillandsia latifolia

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Allardtia Species: latifolia Varieties: latifolia divaricata leucophylla major
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Tillandsia latifolia Meyen, 1835

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Distribution:

Peru
often on rocks and in sand along the coast
0 - 2900 m

 

Images:

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Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia latifolia Meyen (1835) Reisen in Europa, Asien and Afrika 2: 45

(Reise)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia kunthiana Gaudichaud, 1842
• Platystachys kunthiana (Gaudichaud) Beer, 1857
• Platystachys latifolia (Meyen) K. Koch, 1874
• Tillandsia grisea Baker, 1887
• Tillandsia oxysepala Baker, 1888
• Tillandsia murorum Mez, 1913

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 786
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :70
• Gortan (1990) Die Bromelie 2: 43-46
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :30
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :204
• Luther & Sieff (1997) Selbyana 18(1): 110
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :87