Tillandsia fasciculataSw.

cardinal airplant

WFO wfo-0000578417 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. a Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 191790425
Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by Stephanie C
fig. b Stephanie C, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193261125
Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. c Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197945478
Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by Claire Herzog
fig. d Claire Herzog, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201006830
Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. e Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191776131
Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by LBuffum
fig. f LBuffum, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200148209
Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by Laura Gaudette
fig. g Laura Gaudette, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194125735
Tillandsia fasciculata, photographed by Josiah Londerée
fig. h Josiah Londerée, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190519261

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 729 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 729 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Platystachys glaucophylla (Hook.) Beer
  • Platystachys havanensis Beer
  • Tillandsia beutelspacheri Matuda ex L.B.Sm.
  • Tillandsia bracteata Chapm.
  • Tillandsia compressa var. oligostachya Baker
  • Tillandsia eminens Lindl.
  • Tillandsia fasciculata f. alba M.B.Foster
  • Tillandsia fasciculata var. bogotensis André
  • Tillandsia fasciculata var. convexispica Mez
  • Tillandsia fasciculata var. latispica Mez
  • Tillandsia fasciculata var. pendulispica Mez
  • Tillandsia fasciculata var. uncispica Mez
  • Tillandsia glaucophylla (Hook.) Baker
  • Tillandsia havanensis Beer
  • Tillandsia hystericina Small
  • Tillandsia hystricina Small
  • Tillandsia insignis Matuda
  • Tillandsia macrostachya Klotzsch ex Beer
  • Tillandsia pungens Mez
  • Tillandsia wilsonii S.Watson
  • Vriesea glaucophylla Hook.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.