Vriesea procera(Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Wittm.

WFO wfo-0000604288 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Vriesea procera, photographed by russiannaturalistbrazil
fig. a russiannaturalistbrazil, CC BY 4.0 / 2008-10-20 / obs. 44465
Vriesea procera, photographed by russiannaturalistbrazil
fig. b russiannaturalistbrazil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44466
Vriesea procera, photographed by russiannaturalistbrazil
fig. c russiannaturalistbrazil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44468
Vriesea procera, photographed by russiannaturalistbrazil
fig. d russiannaturalistbrazil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44470
Vriesea procera, photographed by russiannaturalistbrazil
fig. e russiannaturalistbrazil, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44472

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Vriesea procera is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastFrench GuianaGuyanaParaguaySurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Vriesea procera, 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
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Paraguay PAR
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
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.

Also published as 10 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 erectiflora Baker
  • Tillandsia ernestii Mez
  • Tillandsia gracilis (Gaudich.) Griseb.
  • Tillandsia gracilis Ule
  • Tillandsia procera Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Tillandsia viscidula Britton
  • Vriesea catharinensis F.J.Müll.
  • Vriesea flexuosa F.P.Uribbe & A.F.Costa
  • Vriesea gracilis Gaudich.
  • Vriesea procera var. gracilis (Gaudich.) Mez

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.

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.