Tillandsia sphaerocephala

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Allardtia Species: sphaerocephala Varieties: sphaerocephala tarijensis
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Tillandsia sphaerocephala Baker, 1888

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Rauh (1990) and Ehlers & Hromadnik (1998) consider the synonym Tillandsia schreiteri still as a good species.

Distribution:

Bolivia, Northwestern-Argentina
epiphytic or saxicolous
950 - 3550 m

 

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Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia sphaerocephala Baker (1888) Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 26: 141

(J. Bot.)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia schreiteri Lillo & A. Castellanos, 1929

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 778
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :106
• Bennet (1990) Journal of the Bromeliad Society 40(2): 64-69
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :47
• Ehlers & Hromadnik (1998) Die Bromelie 2: 33, 36-43
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :94
• Hromadnik (2010) Die Bromelie 1: 40,48