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Tillandsia cleistopetala Rossado

(subgen. Diaphoranthema)

Publ: Phytotaxa 756(1): 44-48 fig. 4-6, 9, 10 (2026)

Type: URUGUAY. Lavalleja: Cerro Arequita, [34°17’S, 55°16’W], 22 September 1965 (fl.), P. Izaguirre et al. 2187 (holotype: MVFA [MVFA0008861])

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Distribution: Uruguay (western to southern); Argentina (to centraleastern)

Habitat: epiphyte along the margins of forests, as well as in open thorny forests, in temperate-warm climate, 0-170 m. Elev.

Etymology: This species is named after its flowers, which have persistently closed corollas [from the Greek: κλειστός (cleisto) = closed; πέταλα (petala) = petals]. The term cleistopetaly has been defined as the permanent closure of the perianth (Jackson 1928, Font Quer 2001)

Phenology: Flowers in August and September (obligately cleistogamous)

Tillandsia cleistopetala