Tillandsia streptocarpa

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tillandsia streptocarpa, photographed by Vincent A. Vos — fig. b Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155721084

Tillandsia streptocarpa, photographed by Obed Palagot Echavarria — fig. c Obed Palagot Echavarria, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 178288578

Tillandsia streptocarpa, photographed by Jean-Paul Boerekamps — fig. d Jean-Paul Boerekamps, CC0 1.0 / obs. 113079949

Tillandsia streptocarpa, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg — fig. e Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 176473832

Tillandsia streptocarpa, photographed by Andy Jordan — fig. f Andy Jordan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179722675

Tillandsia streptocarpa, photographed by Sol Quipildor — fig. g Sol Quipildor, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 105173053

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Tillandsia streptocarpa, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Argentina Northeast	AGE	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia	BOL
Brazil Northeast	BZE
Brazil South	BZS
Brazil Southeast	BZL
Brazil West-Central	BZC
Paraguay	PAR
Peru	PER

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.

Flowering 55 in flower of 113 examined

13%

40%

13%

50%

38%

78%

71%

63%

Proportion of examined Tillandsia streptocarpa in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	1	4	too few examined
Feb	0	3	too few examined
Mar	1	8	13%	2% to 47%
Apr	0	3	too few examined
May	2	5	40%	12% to 77%
Jun	1	8	13%	2% to 47%
Jul	3	6	50%	19% to 81%
Aug	0	6	0%	0% to 39%
Sep	3	8	38%	14% to 69%
Oct	14	18	78%	55% to 91%
Nov	20	28	71%	53% to 85%
Dec	10	16	63%	39% to 82%

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Tillandsia streptocarpa observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 55 of 113 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 11 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 apoloensis Rusby
Tillandsia bakeriana Britton
Tillandsia condensata Baker
Tillandsia duratii subsp. streptocarpa (Baker) Halda
Tillandsia soratensis Baker
Tillandsia streptocarpa var. aureiflora Rauh
Tillandsia streptocarpa var. filifolia Hassl.
Tillandsia streptocarpa var. peruviana Ule
Tillandsia streptocarpa var. pungens Chodat & Vischer
Tillandsia streptocarpa var. streptocarpa
Tillandsia tricholepis Baker

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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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