Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Stems clustered on the branches of trees or shrubs, sometimes on other objects, even on telegraph wires, often forming large masses, the leaf-bearing part 3-8 cm. long, terminated by a scape-like, 1-5-flowered (mostly 2-flowered), very slender peduncle 5-12 cm. long. Leaves filiform-setaceous, about as long. as the peduncle or shorter, densely covered with soft, spreading scales, their "bases a little dilated; bracts lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm. long; sepals lanceolate, acute, shorter than the bracts; petals blue, narrow, about as long as the bracts; capsule linear, prismatic, 2-2.5 cm. long.

  • Distribution

    On trees and shrubs, Andros, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Watling's Island, Great Exuma, Acklin's Island, Inagua : Florida ; West Indies and continental tropical America. Thkead-leaved Wild Pine.

    South Andros Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|