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Tillandsia nutans

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Name

Identification
Catopsis nutans (Sw.) Griseb. [family BROMELIACEAE ] (stored under name); Tillandsia nutans Sw. [family BROMELIACEAE ]
Related name
  • Tillandsia pendula
  • Tillandsia nutans
  • Catopsis nutans

Flora

Entry for Catopsis nutans (Swartz) Grisebach [family BROMELIACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 22,
Names
Catopsis nutans (Swartz) Grisebach [family BROMELIACEAE], Flora of the British West Indian Islands, 599. 1864
Tillandsia nutans Swartz [family BROMELIACEAE], Prodr., 56. 1788
Treatment Author(s)
Harry E. Luther
Gregory K. Brown
Information
Plants flowering 0.1--0.3 m. Leaves spreading, bright green, 8--15 cm, somewhat chalky, especially toward base; sheath pale, elliptic; blade subtriangular to narrow triangular, apex acuminate. Inflorescences: scapes decurved; bracts subfoliaceous, laxly imbricate; inflorescences single spikes (in flora), spikes 3--10-flowered, pendent; floral bracts green, elliptic, 1.4--1.5 cm. Flowers nocturnal; sepals green, broadly elliptic, 1--1.2 cm, thin-leathery, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous; petals widely spreading, bright yellow, ligulate, 2--2.4 cm; style included, stigma erect, simple. Fruits ovoid, 1.2--2 cm.
Phenology
Flowering fall--winter
Altitude range
0--30 m
Distribution
MexicoWest IndiesCentral AmericaSouth America.USA Fla.
Discussion
Catopsis nutans is rare in the flora.

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