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|accepted_name=Tillandsia balbisiana
|accepted_authority=Schultes f. in J. J. Roemer and J. A. Schultes
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in J. J. Roemer and J. A. Schultes,Syst. Veg.
|place=7(2):1212. 1830
|year=1830
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia balbisiana
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|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism quantity;whole_organism arrangement or growth form;whole_organism life cycle;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>single or clustering, flowering to 75 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem height or length or size"><b>Stems </b>short.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf quantity;leaf arrangement;leaf orientation;leaf architecture;leaf arrangement or shape;leaf coloration;leaf coloration;leaf length;leaf width;leaf architecture or pubescence"><b>Leaves </b>15–30, many-ranked, reflexed, twisted or contorted, gray, often flushed red, to 65 × 0.6–1.4 cm, appressed-grayish-scaly;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="sheath coloration;sheath shape;sheath shape;sheath width;pseudobulb size">sheath conspicuously rust-colored toward base, ovate to elliptic, conspicuously inflated, forming small pseudobulb, 2–4 cm wide;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade texture;blade shape;apex shape">blade linear-triangular, leathery, channeled to involute, apex attenuate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="scape prominence;scape orientation;scape some measurement;scape diameter"><b>Inflorescences:</b> scape conspicuous, erect, 8–30 cm, 2–4 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bract arrangement;bract orientation;bract orientation;bract architecture">bracts densely imbricate, spreading, recurved and twisted like leaves;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="sheath width">sheath of bracts narrowing gradually into blade;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="spike orientation;spike architecture or shape;spike arrangement or course or shape;spike shape;spike length;spike width;apex shape">spikes erect, 2-pinnate, linear, compressed, 2–10 × 1 cm, apex acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="lateral branch quantity">lateral branches 2–10 (rarely simple).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="floral bract arrangement;floral bract orientation;floral bract coloration;floral bract width;floral bract arrangement or shape;floral bract shape;floral bract some measurement;floral bract texture;base prominence;apex shape;surface pubescence;surface prominence"><b>Floral </b>bracts imbricate, erect, green to red, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), elliptic, keeled, 1.5–2 cm, leathery, base not visible at anthesis, apex acute, surfaces glabrous to inconspicuously scaly near apex only, venation even to slight.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="flower quantity;flower prominence"><b>Flowers </b>5–30, conspicuous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="sepal shape;sepal shape;sepal some measurement;sepal texture;adaxial pair fusion;apex shape;surface pubescence">sepals with adaxial pair connate, lanceolate, keeled, 1.5–2 cm, leathery, apex acute, surfaces glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="corolla shape">corolla tubular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="petal orientation;petal coloration;petal architecture;petal some measurement">petals erect, violet, ligulate, to 3.5 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="stamen position">stamens exserted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="stigma position;stigma arrangement or course">stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="fruit some measurement"><b>Fruits </b>to 4 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in open woods, cypress swamps, coastal forest
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
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name=Tillandsia balbisiana
|authority=Schultes f. in J. J. Roemer and J. A. Schultes
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in open woods, cypress swamps, coastal forest
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America
|reference=None
|publication title=in J. J. Roemer and J. A. Schultes,Syst. Veg.
|publication year=1830
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia balbisiana
|adaxial pair fusion=connate
|apex shape=acute;acute;acute;attenuate
|base prominence=not visible
|blade shape=channeled;involute
|blade texture=leathery
|bract architecture=twisted
|bract arrangement=imbricate
|bract orientation=recurved;spreading
|corolla shape=tubular
|floral bract arrangement=imbricate
|floral bract arrangement or shape=elliptic
|floral bract coloration=green;red
|floral bract orientation=erect
|floral bract shape=keeled
|floral bract some measurement=1.5cm;2cm
|floral bract texture=leathery
|floral bract width=broad
|flower prominence=conspicuous
|flower quantity=5;30
|fruit some measurement=0cm;4cm
|lateral branch quantity=2;10
|leaf architecture=twisted
|leaf architecture or pubescence=appressed-grayish-scaly
|leaf arrangement=many-ranked
|leaf arrangement or shape=contorted
|leaf coloration=flushed red;gray
|leaf length=0cm;65cm
|leaf orientation=reflexed
|leaf quantity=15;30
|leaf width=0.6cm;1.4cm
|petal architecture=ligulate
|petal coloration=violet
|petal orientation=erect
|petal some measurement=0cm;3.5cm
|pseudobulb size=small
|scape diameter=2mm;4mm
|scape orientation=erect
|scape prominence=conspicuous
|scape some measurement=8cm;30cm
|sepal shape=keeled;lanceolate
|sepal some measurement=1.5cm;2cm
|sepal texture=leathery
|sheath coloration=rust-colored
|sheath shape=inflated;ovate;elliptic
|sheath width=narrowing;2cm;4cm
|spike architecture or shape=2-pinnate
|spike arrangement or course or shape=linear
|spike length=2cm;10cm
|spike orientation=erect
|spike shape=compressed
|spike width=1
|stamen position=exserted
|stem height or length or size=short
|stigma arrangement or course=conduplicate-spiral
|stigma position=exserted
|surface prominence=slight
|surface pubescence=glabrous;glabrous;inconspicuously scaly
|whole_organism arrangement or growth form=clustering
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism life cycle=flowering
|whole_organism quantity=single
|whole_organism some measurement=0cm;75cm
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