Tillandsia simulata
Broad Needleleaf
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Scientific name: Tillandsia simulata
Small.
Common names: Broad
needleaf.
Status in
Florida: Precinctive (found nowhere else); Not
listed as threatened.
Threats to
this plant in Florida: Mexican bromeliad weevil (Metamasius callizona).
Distribution: Florida.
Distribution in Florida: Citrus,
DeSoto, Flagler, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lake,
Levy, Manatee, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam,
Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia Counties.
Occurrence in Florida: Frequent. |
Habitat: Moist hammocks and swamps, usually in strong light.
Description: Epiphytic;
plants single or in clusters; grows to 20-40 cm (8-16 in.) tall;
pointed, leathery, grayish leaves; simple flower spike with reddish
floral bracts; 5-30 violet flowers (4.5 cm [1 3/4 in.] long);
seed capsules up to 3 cm (1 1/8 in.) long.
Time of
flowering: Spring - summer.
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References
Coile NC. 2000. Notes on Florida's Endangered and Threatened
Plants. FDACS/DPI,
Bureau of Entomology, Nematology and Plant Pathology, Botany Section.
Contribution No. 38, 3rd ed., Gainesville, FL.
http://www.virtualherbarium.org/EPAC
Florida Natural Areas Inventory.
1997. Matrix of Habitats and Distribution by County of
Rare/Endangered
Species of Florida. Florida Natural Areas Inventory/The Nature
Conservancy.
http://www.fnai.org
Long RW, Lakela O. 1976. A Flora of Tropical Florida.
Banyan Books, Miami. 178 p.
Luther
HE, Benzing DH. 2009. Native Bromeliads of
Florida. Sarasota, FL. Pineapple Press,
Inc.
Ward
DB (ed.). 1979. Plants, Vol. 5. In: Rare and Endangered Biota of
Florida, P.C.H. Pritchard (ed.). University Presses of Florida,
Gainesville, 175 p.
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