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Blushing Bride Airplant
Tillandsia ionantha
Tillandsia ionantha, the air plant (a common name shared by most species in its genus), is a species of plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Central America and Mexico. It is also reportedly naturalized in Broward County, Florida, United States.
From the article Tillandsia ionantha on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
They are acaulescent or sometimes shortly caulescent plants, with a size of 6–8 cm high. The leaves are 4–9 cm long; with pods 0.6–1 cm wide, densely patent fabric; narrow triangular sheets, 0.3–0.4 cm wide, dense lepidota indument, foliaceous bracts; compound inflorescence (of simple appearance due to the reduction of the spikes to 1 flower), with 1–3 flowers, primary foliaceous bracts, much longer than the spikes, floral bracts 3 cm long, longer than the sepals and covering them in the anthesis, ecarinated, inconspicuously nervate, glabrous, membranous, sessile flowers; sepals are 2 cm long, free, the posterior carinate, the anterior ecarinated; purple petals. Capsules are 2.5–4.5 cm long.
In human culture
Tillandsia: generic name that was named by Carl Linnaeus in 1738 in honor of the Finnish doctor and botanist Elias Tillandz (originally Tillander; 1640–1693). ionantha: epithet Latin meaning "with violet flowers"
Synonymy. Tillandsia ionantha f. fastigiata P.Koide Tillandsia ionantha var. Max Ehlers Tillandsia ionantha var. scaposa LBSmith Tillandsia ionantha var. stricta P.Koide Tillandsia ionantha var. van-hyningii MBFoster Tillandsia ionantha var. zebrina BTFoster Tillandsia rubentifolia Poisson & Menet Tillandsia scopus Hook. F. 4
Varieties. Two varieties are recognized:
Tillandsia ionantha var. ionantha – most of species range Tillandsia ionantha var. stricta Koide – Oaxaca
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Tillandsia ionantha in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 141279.