Tillandsia paleacea

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Phytarrhiza Species: paleacea Subspecies: paleacea apurimacensis Forms: paleacea disticha
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Tillandsia paleacea C. Presl, 1827

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Distribution:

Southwestern-Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Chile (?)
saxicolous, in desert-sand or epiphytic
0 - 3000 m

 

 

Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia paleacea C. Presl (1827) Reliquiae Haenkeanae 1(2): 125

(Reliq. Haenk.)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia fusca Baker, 1878
• Tillandsia scalarifolia Baker, 1887
• Tillandsia schenckiana Wittmack, 1889
• Tillandsia chilensis Baker, 1889
• Tillandsia lanata Mez, 1905
• Tillandsia favillosa Mez, 1906

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 863
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :80
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :37
• Zizka & Munoz-Schick (1993) Bol. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. Chile 44: 11-17
• Till (1993) Journal of the Bromeliad Society 43(1): 7-10
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :208
• Luther & Sieff (1997) Selbyana 18(1): 111
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :90