Tillandsia tricolor

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Tillandsia Species: tricolor Varieties: tricolor melanocrater
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Tillandsia tricolor Schlechtendal & Chamisso, 1831

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Distribution:

Southern-Mexico to Costa Rica
epiphytic in cloudforests
1400 - 2300 m

 

 

Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia tricolor Schlechtendal & Chamisso (1831) Linnaea 6: 54

(Linnaea)

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  Original Description of
  Tillandsia tricolor

Synonyms:

• Vriesea xiphostachys Hooker, 1861
• Platystachys complanata E. Morren, 1872
• Tillandsia complanata sensu E. Morren, 1872
• Vriesea botteri hortus ex Regel, 1884
• Tillandsia acroleuca Mez & Purpus, 1919
• Tillandsia tricolor var. picta L.B. Smith, 1945

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 939
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :120
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :52
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :190
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :79