Tillandsia gymnobotryaBaker

WFO wfo-0000579262 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Tillandsia gymnobotrya, photographed by Tereso Hernández Morales
fig. a Tereso Hernández Morales, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-10-08 / obs. 99386043
Tillandsia gymnobotrya, photographed by Adrianh M. Orozco
fig. b Adrianh M. Orozco, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 30012707
Tillandsia gymnobotrya, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. c Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25873310
Tillandsia gymnobotrya, photographed by Alan Rockefeller
fig. d Alan Rockefeller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 25873312
Tillandsia gymnobotrya, photographed by Eugenio Padilla
fig. e Eugenio Padilla, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 141734524

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Tillandsia gymnobotrya is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Costa Rica Mexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico SouthwestCosta Rica
Native distribution of Tillandsia gymnobotrya, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southwest MXS
Costa Rica COS SOUTHERN AMERICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 3 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Tillandsia liebmanniana E.Morren ex Baker
  • Tillandsia purpusii Mez
  • Tillandsia tridactylites É.Morren

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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