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|accepted_name=Tillandsia pruinosa
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora Indiae Occidentalis
|place=1: 594. 1797
|year=1797
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia pruinosa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bromeliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tillandsia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tillandsia pruinosa]]</div></div>
|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>usually single, rarely clustering, flowering to 10 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 arrangement or shape;leaf orientation;leaf coloration;leaf length;leaf width;leaf architecture or pubescence;scale relief"><b>Leaves </b>5–10, many-ranked, contorted or secund-spreading, gray-green to silver, 6–10 × 0.3–0.5 cm, densely pruinose-scaly, scales coarse;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="sheath coloration;sheath shape;sheath shape;sheath width;pseudobulb size">sheath dark chestnut-brown within, ovate to elliptic, conspicuously inflated, forming small pseudobulb, 1.5–3 cm wide;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade texture;margin shape or vernation;apex shape">blade linear-subulate, semisucculent, margins 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 inconspicuous, usually ascending, 1–3 cm, 2–3 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bract arrangement;bract orientation;leaf size">bracts densely imbricate, erect to spreading, like leaves but gradually smaller;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="sheath width">sheath of bracts narrowing abruptly into blade;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="inflorescence orientation;inflorescence architecture or shape;inflorescence arrangement or shape;inflorescence shape;inflorescence length;inflorescence width;spike quantity;apex shape">single spikes, usually ascending, pinnate, broadly elliptic, compressed, 2–3 × 1.2–2.4 cm, apex acute to obtuse.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="floral bract arrangement;floral bract orientation;floral bract coloration;floral bract width;floral bract shape;floral bract shape;floral bract some measurement;floral bract texture;base prominence;apex shape;surface architecture or pubescence;surface prominence"><b>Floral </b>bracts imbricate, erect, pink, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), ovate, keeled, 2–2.2 cm, thin-leathery, base not visible at anthesis, apex broadly acute, surfaces densely scaly, venation even to slight.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="flower quantity;flower prominence"><b>Flowers </b>3–12, conspicuous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="sepal fusion;sepal arrangement or shape;sepal position;sepal texture;sepal architecture;apex shape;surface pubescence">sepals free, elliptic, adaxial pair keeled, 1.2–1.8 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="corolla shape">corolla tubular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="petal orientation;petal coloration;petal architecture;petal some measurement">petals erect, blue-violet, ligulate, to 3 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="stamen position">stamens exserted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="stigma position;stigma arrangement or course">stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="fruit some measurement"><b>Fruits </b>to 3.5 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic in shady, humid hammocks
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies;Central America;South America
|discussion=<p>In the flora area, Tillandsia pruinosa is infrequent but locally abundant.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tillandsia pruinosa
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic in shady, humid hammocks
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies;Central America;South America
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora Indiae Occidentalis
|publication year=1797
|special status=
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia pruinosa
|apex shape=obtuse;acute;acute;obtuse
|base prominence=not visible
|blade shape=linear-subulate
|blade texture=semisucculent
|bract arrangement=imbricate
|bract orientation=erect;spreading
|corolla shape=tubular
|floral bract arrangement=imbricate
|floral bract coloration=pink
|floral bract orientation=erect
|floral bract shape=keeled;ovate
|floral bract some measurement=2cm;2.2cm
|floral bract texture=thin-leathery
|floral bract width=broad
|flower prominence=conspicuous
|flower quantity=3;12
|fruit some measurement=0cm;3.5cm
|inflorescence architecture or shape=pinnate
|inflorescence arrangement or shape=elliptic
|inflorescence length=2cm;3cm
|inflorescence orientation=ascending
|inflorescence shape=compressed
|inflorescence width=1.2cm;2.4cm
|leaf architecture or pubescence=pruinose-scaly
|leaf arrangement=many-ranked
|leaf arrangement or shape=contorted
|leaf coloration=gray-green;silver
|leaf length=6cm;10cm
|leaf orientation=secund-spreading
|leaf quantity=5;10
|leaf size=smaller
|leaf width=0.3cm;0.5cm
|margin shape or vernation=involute
|petal architecture=ligulate
|petal coloration=blue-violet
|petal orientation=erect
|petal some measurement=0cm;3cm
|pseudobulb size=small
|scale relief=coarse
|scape diameter=2mm;3mm
|scape orientation=ascending
|scape prominence=inconspicuous
|scape some measurement=1cm;3cm
|sepal architecture=veined
|sepal arrangement or shape=elliptic
|sepal fusion=free
|sepal position=adaxial
|sepal texture=thin-leathery
|sheath coloration=dark chestnut-brown
|sheath shape=inflated;ovate;elliptic
|sheath width=narrowing;1.5cm;3cm
|spike quantity=single
|stamen position=exserted
|stem height or length or size=short
|stigma arrangement or course=conduplicate-spiral
|stigma position=exserted
|surface architecture or pubescence=scaly
|surface prominence=slight
|surface pubescence=glabrous
|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;10cm
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