Tillandsia pruinosaSw.

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WFO wfo-0000583284 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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 pruinosa, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-03-10 / obs. 14171754
Tillandsia pruinosa, photographed by J. L. Gómez-Hechavarría
fig. b J. L. Gómez-Hechavarría, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121820866
Tillandsia pruinosa, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. c Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18695195
Tillandsia pruinosa, photographed by Douglas Goldman
fig. d Douglas Goldman, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 50503461
Tillandsia pruinosa, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. e Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176016364
Tillandsia pruinosa, photographed by Scott Ward
fig. f Scott Ward, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158253262
Tillandsia pruinosa, photographed by Adam Pitcher
fig. g Adam Pitcher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 71350942
Tillandsia pruinosa, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. h Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176016349

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Tillandsia pruinosa is native: Florida, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Venezuela FloridaMexico GulfMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestBelizeBrazil NorthBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPuerto RicoSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Tillandsia pruinosa, 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
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Puerto Rico PUE
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS

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 4 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.

  • Platystachys pruinosa (Sw.) Beer
  • Platystachys tortilis Beer
  • Tillandsia breviscapa A.Rich.
  • Tillandsia tortilis Klotzsch ex Beer

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.