Tillandsia paucifolia
Potbelly Airplant
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Scientific name: Tillandsia paucifolia Baker
Former names: Tillandsia circinnata, Tillandsia bulbosa.
Common names: Potbelly airplant.
Status in Florida: Not listed as threatened.
Threats to this plant in Florida: Mexican bromeliad weevil (Metamasius callizona).
Distribution: Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Central and South America.
Distribution
in Florida:
Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Hendry, Indian River, Lee,
Manatee, Martin, MiamiDade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Osceola, Palm Beach,
Sarasota, and St. Lucie Counties. |
Occurrence
in Florida: Occasional.
Habitat: Coastal strands and hammocks, brightly exposed habitats.
Description:
Tank epiphyte; grows to 10-35 cm (4-14 in.) tall, singly or in
clusters; 5-10 leaves, silvery-gray, on long pseudobulbs, twisted and
narrowing into curved ends; simple flower spike (5-8 cm [2-3 in.]
long), may have 2-4 lateral spikes, with 2-15 flowers; floral bracts
2-3 cm (3/4 - 1 1/8 in.), leathery, pale pink; lavender-blue
petals, 2-3 cm (3/4 - 1 1/8 in.) long; mature seed capsules up to
4 cm (1 1/2 in.) long, grayish brown, pointed.
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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