Bromeliaceae
Tillandsia

Tillandsia setacea Sw.

First published in Fl. Ind. Occid. 1: 593 (1797)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. U.S.A. to Guatemala, Caribbean, Brazil (Pará). It is an epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit
Plant stemless; leaves numerous in a dense fasciculate rosette, 15–30 cm long or more, often longer than the inflorescence, densely and finely lepidote throughout; sheaths ca. 2 cm long, often keeled, brownish; blades setiform, usually less than 1 mm thick
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Scape
Scape erect, very slender, sparsely lepidote; scape-bracts erect, closely involute, densely overlapping
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence simple and distichous-flowered or shortly branched, mostly 2.5–5 cm long; primary bracts like the upper scape-bracts; spikes subsessile; floral bracts densely overlapping, mostly 8–14 mm long, longer than the sepals
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers subsessile; sepals 7–12 mm long, glabrous; petals tubular-erect, linear, 2 cm long, violet; stamens and pistil exserted
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule narrowly cylindric, 2.5 cm long.
Distribution
Grand Cayman. Florida, Greater Antilles, northern C. America, Venezuela, Brazil.
[Cayman]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0