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|accepted_name=Tillandsia recurvata
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|place=1: 410. 1762
|year=1762
}}
|common_names=Ball-moss
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Renealmia recurvata
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 287. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Diaphoranthema recurvata
|authority=(Linnaeus) Beer
}}
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia recurvata
|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 recurvata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>in dense spheric clusters, flowering to 15 cm diam. <b>Stems</b> short. <b>Leaves</b> 4–10, 2-ranked, recurving, gray, 6–12 × 0.2–0.3 cm, densely pruinose-scaly; sheath pale, elliptic, not inflated, not forming pseudobulb, 4–8 mm wide; blade subulate, terete distally, succulent, margins involute to nearly tubular, apex acute to attenuate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape conspicuous, erect, 2–5 cm, &#177; 1 mm diam.; bracts 1–2, widely spaced, erect, inconspicuous, nearly foliaceous; sheath of bracts narrowing gradually into blade; spikes ascending, subpalmate, elliptic, compressed, 8–15 ´ 4–6 mm, apex acute; lateral branches absent. <b>Floral</b> bracts laxly imbricate, erect, green, tinged purple, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), narrowly elliptic, not keeled, 0.8–1 cm, thin-leathery, apex acute, surfaces densely grayish-scaly, venation even to slight. <b>Flowers</b> usually 2, conspicuous; sepals free, lanceolate, not keeled, 6–8 mm, thin, veined, apex acute, surfaces glabrous; corolla tubular; petals spreading toward apex, violet, elliptic, 0.7–1 cm; stamens included; stigma included, simple-erect. <b>Fruits</b> to 3 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic to occasionally among or on rocks (Arizona, Texas), usually in bright exposed habitats
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
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name=Tillandsia recurvata
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Diaphoranthema recurvata
|basionyms=Renealmia recurvata
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic to occasionally among or on rocks (Arizona, Texas), usually in bright exposed habitats
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|publication year=1762
|special status=
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia recurvata
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