Tillandsia pruinosa

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Tillandsia Species: pruinosa
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Tillandsia pruinosa Swartz, 1797

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Distribution:

Southern-USA (Florida) across Mexico, Antilles, Cuba to Ecuador and Brazil
epiphytic
200 - 1200 m

 

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Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia pruinosa Swartz (1797) Flora Indiae Occidentalis 1: 594

(Fl. Ind. Occid.)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia breviscapa A. Richard, 1850
• Platystachys pruinosa Beer, 1857
• Platystachys tortilis Beer, 1857
• Tillandsia tortilis Klotzsch ex Beer, 1857

Literature:

• Proctor & Read In: Adams (1972) Flowering Plants of Jamaica :48, 51
• Julia & Alain Liogier (1977) Moscosoa 1: 35-36
• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 984
• Bennet (1983) Journal of the Bromeliad Society 33(1): 19-20, 37
• Zanoni, Milcíades & Read (1986) Moscosoa 4: 86
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :143
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :41
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :204
• Steyermark, Berry & Holst (1997) Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol.3 :664
• Lecoufle (2002) Journal of the Bromeliad Society 52(1): 1
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :91