Tillandsia bandensis
A small, grey, clumping air plant of subgenus Diaphoranthema from the dry woodlands of southern South America, with violet to blue flowers. It grows on twigs and branches of Chaco and sierra trees and occasionally on rock, taking strong light, a dry winter and cool nights. Treat it as a hard-light, fast-drying atmospheric Tillandsia rather than a rainforest bromeliad.
Where it grows wild
An atmospheric epiphyte on branches of dry forest and scrub trees such as quebracho blanco and pacará in the Chaco, Chaco serrano and espinal, and in dry montane valleys of Bolivia; it is also recorded on rocks at cliff edges in Paraguay and on trees in city squares. Specimen labels call it very frequent where it occurs.
GBIF records span sea level (Buenos Aires, Corrientes) to about 2300 m in Bolivia and the Argentine sierras; most labelled collections are between 500 and 1500 m.
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