Tillandsia variabilis

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Tillandsia variabilis
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Bromeliaceae
Genus: Tillandsia
Subgenus: Tillandsia subg. Tillandsia
Species:
T. variabilis
Binomial name
Tillandsia variabilis
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • Platystachys moritzianaBeer
  • Tillandsia brachypodaBaker
  • Tillandsia domingensisMez
  • Tillandsia houzeaviiChapm.
  • Tillandsia laxaGriseb.
  • Tillandsia moritzianaBeer
  • Tillandsia polystachia var. albaWittm.
  • Tillandsia sublaxaBaker
  • Tillandsia valenzuelanaA. Rich.

Tillandsia variabilis, the leatherleaf airplant, [3] is a species of bromeliad in the genus Tillandsia . This species is native to Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Chiapas, Yucatán, Puebla), Venezuela, Colombia, the West Indies and southern Florida. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Tillandsia variabilis is an epiphyte growing in the branches of various trees in moist forests. It is up to 40 cm long including the inflorescence, usually single but occasionally in clumps. Leaves are narrowly triangular, soft and brittle, up to 30 cm long. Inflorescence is usually simple, sometimes with 2-3 branches but never palmately branched. Bracts are red, green or purple, less than 1 cm wide, covering and obscuring the rachis. Flowers are lavender to blue, up to 3 cm long. [4] [9] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]

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  13. photo of specimen of Tillandsia variabilis at Missouri Botanical, collected in Oaxaca, Mexico
  14. Richard, Achille. 1850. Historia Física Política y Natural de la Isla de Cuba, Botánica 11: 267.
  15. Baker, John Gilbert. 1887. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 25: 280.
  16. photo of isotype of Tillandsia houzeavii (synonym of Tillandsia variabilis) at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Florida
  17. Chapman, Alvan (Alvin) Wentworth. 1883. Flora of the Southern United States (ed. 2) Suppl.: 655.