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|accepted_name=Catopsis nutans
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Grisebach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora of the British West Indian Islands
|place=599. 1864
|year=1864
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Tillandsia nutans
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=56. 1788
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Catopsis;Catopsis nutans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bromeliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Catopsis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Catopsis nutans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>flowering 0.1–0.3 m. <b>Leaves</b> spreading, bright green, 8–15 cm, somewhat chalky, especially toward base; sheath pale, elliptic; blade subtriangular to narrow triangular, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scapes decurved; bracts subfoliaceous, laxly imbricate; inflorescences single spikes (in flora), spikes 3–10-flowered, pendent; floral bracts green, elliptic, 1.4–1.5 cm. <b>Flowers</b> nocturnal; sepals green, broadly elliptic, 1–1.2 cm, thin-leathery, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous; petals widely spreading, bright yellow, ligulate, 2–2.4 cm; style included, stigma erect, simple. <b>Fruits</b> ovoid, 1.2–2 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering fall–winter.
|habitat=Epiphytic in shady, humid hammocks
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Catopsis nutans</i> is rare in the flora.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Catopsis nutans
|authority=(Swartz) Grisebach
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Tillandsia nutans
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering fall–winter.
|habitat=Epiphytic in shady, humid hammocks
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora of the British West Indian Islands
|publication year=1864
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V22/V22_545.xml
|genus=Catopsis
|species=Catopsis nutans
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