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|accepted_name=Tillandsia simulata
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Manual of the Southeastern Flora
|place=270, 1503. 1933
|year=1933
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia simulata
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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 40 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 coloration;leaf length;leaf width;leaf architecture or pubescence"><b>Leaves </b>15–30, many-ranked, erect to spreading, gray, 20–40 × 0.1–0.4 cm, densely appressed-grayish-scaly;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="sheath coloration;sheath arrangement or shape;sheath shape;sheath width">sheath chestnut-brown, narrowly elliptic, slightly inflated, not forming pseudobulb, 1.2–2 cm wide;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape;blade texture;margin shape or vernation;apex shape">blade very narrowly linear-triangular, leathery, 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 conspicuous, erect, 10–15 cm, 4–6 mm diam.;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="bract arrangement;bract orientation;leaf size">bracts densely imbricate, erect, 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="spike orientation;spike architecture;spike arrangement or course or shape;spike shape;spike length;spike width;apex shape">spikes erect to spreading, palmate, linear, compressed, 2–5 × 1 cm, apex acute;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="lateral branch quantity">lateral branches 1–5.</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 architecture or pubescence;surface prominence"><b>Floral </b>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.</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 arrangement or shape;sepal shape;sepal some measurement;sepal texture;sepal architecture;adaxial pair fusion;apex shape;surface architecture or pubescence">sepals with adaxial pair connate, elliptic, keeled, to 1.6 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex obtuse, surfaces slightly scaly;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="corolla shape;petal orientation;petal coloration;petal architecture;petal some measurement">corolla tubular, petals erect, violet, ligulate, 3–4.5 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 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in swamps and moist hammocks, usually in strong light
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.
|discussion=<p>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.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tillandsia simulata
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in swamps and moist hammocks, usually in strong light
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=Manual of the Southeastern Flora
|publication year=1933
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia simulata
|adaxial pair fusion=connate
|apex shape=obtuse;acute;acute;attenuate
|base prominence=not visible
|blade shape=linear-triangular
|blade texture=leathery
|bract arrangement=imbricate
|bract orientation=erect
|corolla shape=tubular
|floral bract arrangement=imbricate
|floral bract arrangement or shape=elliptic
|floral bract coloration=rose
|floral bract orientation=erect
|floral bract shape=keeled
|floral bract some measurement=1.4cm;1.8cm
|floral bract texture=thin-leathery
|floral bract width=broad
|flower prominence=conspicuous
|flower quantity=5;30
|fruit some measurement=0cm;3cm
|lateral branch quantity=1;5
|leaf architecture or pubescence=appressed-grayish-scaly
|leaf arrangement=many-ranked
|leaf coloration=gray
|leaf length=20cm;40cm
|leaf orientation=erect;spreading
|leaf quantity=15;30
|leaf size=smaller
|leaf width=0.1cm;0.4cm
|margin shape or vernation=involute
|petal architecture=ligulate
|petal coloration=violet
|petal orientation=erect
|petal some measurement=3cm;4.5cm
|scape diameter=4mm;6mm
|scape orientation=erect
|scape prominence=conspicuous
|scape some measurement=10cm;15cm
|sepal architecture=veined
|sepal arrangement or shape=elliptic
|sepal shape=keeled
|sepal some measurement=0cm;1.6cm
|sepal texture=thin-leathery
|sheath arrangement or shape=elliptic
|sheath coloration=chestnut-brown
|sheath shape=inflated
|sheath width=narrowing;1.2cm;2cm
|spike architecture=palmate
|spike arrangement or course or shape=linear
|spike length=2cm;5cm
|spike orientation=erect;spreading
|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 architecture or pubescence=scaly;appressed-grayish-scaly
|surface prominence=slight
|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;40cm
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