Tillandsia setecea
Southern Needleleaf
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Scientific name: Tillandsia setacea Swartz.
Former names: Tillandsia tenuifolia L.
Common names: Southern needleleaf, needle-leaf airplant.
Status in
Florida: Not listed as threatened.
Threats to
this plant in Florida: Habitat destruction.
Distribution: Florida, Georgia, West Indies, Central and South America.
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Distribution in Florida:
Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry,
Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Indian River, Lake, Lee, Manatee,
Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach,
Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Putnam, Sarasota, Seminole, St. Lucie, Sumter,
and Volusia Counties.
Occurrence in Florida: Common.
Habitat: Hammocks and swamps.
Description:
Epiphytic; grows to 30 cm (12 in.) long; plants densely
clustered, growing as aggregates of small tufts; leaves dilated at
base, flexuous at tips, green to reddish-green in color; flower stalk
8-15 cm (3-6 in.); 315 flowers, 2.5 cm (1 in.) long; violet petals;
seed capsule up to 3 cm (1 1/8 in.) long; similar to Tillandsia
bartramii except leaves green or reddish and floral bracts green,
tinged with red.
Time of
flowering: Spring - fall.
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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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