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|accepted_name=Tillandsia utriculata
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 286. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Giant wild-pine
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia utriculata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bromeliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tillandsia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tillandsia utriculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>single, flowering to 2 m. <b>Stems</b> short. <b>Leaves</b> 20–75, many-ranked, spreading and recurved, not twisted, gray-green (rarely variegated with linear cream stripes), to 1 m × 1.5–3.5 cm, finely appressed-scaly; sheath pale or slightly rust colored, ovate, not inflated, not forming pseudobulb, 6–15 cm wide; blade linear-triangular, leathery, channeled to involute, apex attenuate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape conspicuous, erect, 20–50 cm, 6–12 mm diam.; bracts densely imbricate proximally, often lax distally, erect to spreading, like leaves but gradually smaller; sheath of bracts narrowing gradually into blade; spikes very laxly 6–11-flowered, erect to spreading, 2–3-pinnate, linear, 15–40 × 10–15 cm, apex acute; branches 5–40 (rarely simple). <b>Floral</b> bracts widely spaced, erect, green or tinged purple, exposing most of rachis at anthesis, ovate, not keeled, 1.2–2 cm, leathery, venation slight, base visible at anthesis, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> 10–200, conspicuous; sepals free, elliptic, not keeled, 1.4–2 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous; corolla tubular, somewhat bilaterally symmetric, petals erect, slightly twisted, white, ligulate, to 4 cm; stamens exserted; stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral. <b>Fruits</b> to 4 cm. n = 25 (Puerto Rico, West Indies).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts, often in bright exposed habitats, usually abundant
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
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name=Tillandsia utriculata
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
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|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts, often in bright exposed habitats, usually abundant
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia utriculata
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