Tillandsia balbisiana Schult.f.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Bromeliaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Plants usually solitary on trees or shrubs, sometimes clustered. Leaves densely appressed-scurfy, linear-attenuate from much dilated bases which form a swollen cluster 2-6 dm. long, the lower ones often as long as the rather slender flowering stems, sometimes longer; inflorescence narrow; spikes 3-8, compressed, 5-10 cm. long, the flowers rather close together; bracts oblonglanceolate, acute, 1.5-2 cm. long; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acute, about as long as the bracts; petals blue, 4-5 cm. long; capsule subcylindric, about twice as long as the bracts.
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Distribution
On shrubs and low trees, in coppices and scrub-lands, Geat Bahama, Abaco, Andros, New Providence, Crooked Island, Inagua, Caicos : Florida ; Cuba ; Hispaniola : Jamaica ; Central America. Balbis' Wild Pine. Cuttlefish.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| West Indies| Jamaica South America| Central America|