Tillandsia bartramii Elliott

Bartram's airplant (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Bromeliaceae > Tillandsia

Characteristics

Plants densely clustering, flowering to 20--40 cm. Stems short. Leaves 15--30, many-ranked, erect to spreading, gray, 15--40 ´ 0.2--0.5 cm, coarsely appressed-scaly; sheath rust-colored toward base, broadly triangular, flat, not forming pseudobulb, 1--2 cm wide; blade linear-subulate, leathery, margins involute, apex attenuate. Inflorescences: scape conspicuous, erect, 8--15 cm, 2--4 mm diam.; bracts densely imbricate, erect; sheath of bracts narrowing gradually into blade; spikes erect, simple or palmate, linear, compressed, 2--4 ´ 1 cm, apex acute; simple or lateral branches 1--5. Floral bracts imbricate, erect, uniformly red to rose, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), elliptic, keeled apically, 1.4--1.7 cm, thin-leathery, base not visible at anthesis, apex acute, surfaces scaly distally, becoming sparsely scaly toward base, venation slight. Flowers 5--20, conspicuous; sepals with adaxial pair connate, elliptic, keeled, to 1.5 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex obtuse, surfaces scaly; corolla tubular, petals erect, violet, ligulate, 3--4.5 cm; stamens exserted; stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral. Fruits 2.5--3 cm.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 0.4
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-10

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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 15 - 21
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Images

Habit

Tillandsia bartramii habit picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Tillandsia bartramii leaf picture by Sylvain Piry (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Tillandsia bartramii world distribution map, present in Georgia and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:124873-1
WFO ID wfo-0000574816
COL ID 56X9G
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Tillandsia myriophylla Tillandsia bartramii Tillandsia pinifolia