Tillandsia izabalensis
A Central American Tillandsia described in 2012, named after Izabal in Guatemala. It is known from the Caribbean lowlands of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, and from islands such as Cayos Cochinos and Providencia. The collection sites are open places: coastal and savanna country, roadsides among pastures, and creeks. That points to a bright, warm, airy plant with a clear dry season from February to April.
Where it grows wild
The holotype comes from Cochino Pequeño in Honduras's Cayos Cochinos islands. Other records come from west of the beach road at Punta Gorda and from a wet savanna on the Coastal Road in Belize; from Livingston in Izabal, Guatemala; and in Nicaragua from the Llano de Santa Adelaida, roadsides among pastures near Juigalpa, the RÃo Coco at Bilwaskarma and creeks at Bismuna. Most of these are open, often seasonally wet lowland habitats near the Caribbean coast. The labels seen do not name a host tree. It is treated here as an epiphyte, as most tillandsias are, but that is not confirmed.
Recorded from 10 to 1000 m, median about 100 m. Nearly all records are below 200 m; the 850 m and 1000 m Nicaraguan records are the exceptions, and the 1000 m one is labelled as a cultivated plant.
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