Tillandsia flexuosa
Twisted Airplant
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Scientific name: Tillandsia flexuosa Sw.
Former name: Tillandsia aloifolia Hook.
Common names: Twisted airplant, banded airplant, flexuous wild-pine, striped airplant.
Status in
Florida: Threatened.
Threats to
this plant in Florida: Mexican bromeliad weevil (Metamasius callizona), illegal collecting, habitat destruction.
Distribution: Florida, West Indies, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia.
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Distribution
in Florida: Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach Counties.
Occurrence in
Florida:
Infrequent.
Habitat: Exposed
habitats, often near the coast; terrestrial (xeric hammock [pinelands,
scrub], shell mound, rockland hammock, coastal berm, maritime hammock);
marine (marine tidal swamp); estuarine (estuarine tidal swamp).
Description:
Exposed habitats, often near the coast; terrestrial (xeric hammock
[pinelands, scrub], shell mound, rockland hammock, coastal berm,
maritime hammock); marine (marine tidal swamp); estuarine (estuarine
tidal swamp).
Time of
flowering: Every month except November and December, mostly spring to 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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