Tillandsia rectangula
A small, stiff, silvery-grey Tillandsia from the dry Monte and Chaco scrub of central and north-western Argentina and the inter-Andean valleys of Bolivia. It grows on shrubs and small trees such as Prosopis, chañar and espinillo, on cardón cacti and occasionally on rocks. It needs full sun, strong airflow, hot summers and a cold, dry winter, and it is hardier to cold than most Tillandsia.
Where it grows wild
Labels describe it as an epiphyte on Prosopis, chañar, espinillo and other semi-woody shrubs in Monte–Chaco transitional scrub with Larrea and Aspidosperma, on roadside alluvial terraces and gravelly granite soils, on cardón cacti near the Salinas Grandes, and sometimes on roadside rocks or rock fissures. In the Cochabamba valley it is recorded among xerophytic epiphytes on trunks and branches of trees and shrubs, and occasionally in rock fissures.
Recorded from about 250 m (western Córdoba plains) to about 2,720 m (Cochabamba valley, Bolivia); the median record is near 1,400 m.
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