Stock Photo: Floweringtillandsia Ionatha Fuego
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Tillandsia ionantha, the air plant, is a species of plant in the genus Tillandsia. This species is native to Central America and Mexico. They are acaulescent or sometimes shortly caulescent plants, with a size of 6–8 cm high. The leaves 4–9 cm long with pods 0.6–1 cm wide, densely patent fabric narrow triangular sheets, 0.3-0.4 cm wide, dense lepidota indument, foliaceous bracts compound inflorescence (of simple appearance due to the reduction of the spikes to 1 flower), with 1-3 flowers, primary foliaceous bracts, much longer than the spikes, floral bracts 3 cm long, longer than the sepals and covering them in the anthesis, ecarinated, inconspicuously nervate, glabrous, membranous, sessile flowers sepals are 2 cm long, free, the posterior carinate, the anterior ecarinated purple petals. Capsules are 2.5-4.5 cm long.
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