Tillandsia bartramii
Bartram's airplant
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Scientific name: Tillandsia bartramii Elliott.
Former names: Tillandsia juncea; Tillandsia myriophylla.
Common names: Bartram's airplant.
Status in
Florida: Not threatened.
Distribution: Florida, Georgia, Caribbean, Mexico.
Distribution
in Florida:
Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Duval, Flagler,
Franklin, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian
River, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lake, Leon, Levy, Liberty, Manatee,
Marion, Nassau, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Polk, Putnam, Seminole, St.
Johns, Sumter, Suwannee, Volusia, and Wakulla Counties.
Occurrence in
Florida: Frequent.
Habitat: Hammocks and pinelands.
Description:
Epiphytic; grows to 10-30 cm (4-12 in.) tall (20-40 cm [8-16 in.] when
flowering); plants densely clustered; thin, leathery, grayish leaves
(15-30 per plant); simple flower spike or with 1-5 side branches; pink
to red floral bracts with flowers 2.5 cm (1 in.) long (5-20 per plant);
seed capsules up to 3 cm (1 1/8 in.) long.
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Time of
flowering: Spring – summer (especially spring).
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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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