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Tillandsia simulata

Tillandsia simulata Small  
Family: Bromeliaceae
Analogue Airplant
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Harry E. Luther;Gregory K. Brown in Flora of North America (vol. 22)
Plants single or clustering, flowering to 40 cm. Stems short. Leaves 15--30, many-ranked, erect to spreading, gray, 20--40 ´ 0.1--0.4 cm, densely appressed-grayish-scaly; sheath chestnut brown, narrowly elliptic, slightly inflated, not forming pseudobulb, 1.2--2 cm wide; blade very narrowly linear-triangular, leathery, margins involute, apex attenuate. Inflorescences: scape conspicuous, erect, 10--15 cm, 4--6 mm diam.; bracts densely imbricate, erect, like leaves but gradually smaller; sheath of bracts narrowing abruptly into blade; spikes erect to spreading, palmate, linear, compressed, 2--5 ´ 1 cm, apex acute; lateral branches 1--5. Floral bracts imbricate, erect, rose, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), elliptic, keeled, 1.4--1.8 cm, thin-leathery, base not visible at anthesis, apex acute, surfaces appressed-grayish-scaly, venation slight apically. Flowers 5--30, conspicuous; sepals with adaxial pair connate, elliptic, keeled, to 1.6 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex obtuse, surfaces slightly scaly; corolla tubular, petals erect, violet, ligulate, 3--4.5 cm; stamens exserted; stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral. Fruits to 3 cm.

Flowering spring. Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in swamps and moist hammocks, usually in strong light; 0--30 m; Fla.

Tillandsia simulata is a distinct species, but preserved material often is misdetermined as Tillandsia bartramii Elliott. L. B. Smith and R. J. Downs (1977) treated T. simulata as a synonym under T. bartramii.

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