Tillandsia stricta

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Tillandsia stricta, photographed by Victor Farjalla Pontes — fig. b Victor Farjalla Pontes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170808557

Tillandsia stricta, photographed by Ana Laura Fiori Dalcin — fig. f Ana Laura Fiori Dalcin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165472199

Tillandsia stricta, photographed by William G. Borges — fig. g William G. Borges, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 165680001

Tillandsia stricta, photographed by Kahio Tiberio Mazon — fig. h Kahio Tiberio Mazon, CC0 1.0 / obs. 163774027

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Native distribution of Tillandsia stricta, 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
Colombia	CLM
Guyana	GUY
Paraguay	PAR
Suriname	SUR
Trinidad-Tobago	TRT
Uruguay	URU
Venezuela	VEN

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 370 in flower of 538 examined

76%

66%

64%

57%

52%

50%

53%

76%

80%

78%

79%

69%

Proportion of examined Tillandsia stricta in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	71	93	76%	67% to 84%
Feb	31	47	66%	52% to 78%
Mar	25	39	64%	48% to 77%
Apr	40	70	57%	45% to 68%
May	14	27	52%	34% to 69%
Jun	13	26	50%	32% to 68%
Jul	10	19	53%	32% to 73%
Aug	16	21	76%	55% to 89%
Sep	43	54	80%	67% to 88%
Oct	36	46	78%	64% to 88%
Nov	38	48	79%	66% to 88%
Dec	33	48	69%	55% to 80%

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Tillandsia stricta 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. 370 of 538 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 13 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.

Anoplophytum bicolor Beer
Anoplophytum krameri (André) É.Morren ex Baker
Anoplophytum strictum (Sol. ex Ker Gawl.) Beer
Anoplophytum strictum var. krameri André
Tillandsia conspersa Miq.
Tillandsia krameri (André) Baker
Tillandsia langsdorffii Mez
Tillandsia pulchella var. rosea (Lindl.) Mez
Tillandsia rosea Lindl.
Tillandsia stricta f. nivea Leme
Tillandsia stricta var. albiflora H.Hrom. & Rauh
Tillandsia stricta var. krameri (André) Mez
Tillandsia stricta var. stricta

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.

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.