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|accepted_name=Tillandsia setacea
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Flora Indiae Occidentalis
|place=1: 593. 1797
|year=1797
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tillandsia tenuifolia
|authority=Linnaeus (in part)
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|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia setacea
|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 setacea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>densely clustering, flowering to 30 cm. <b>Stems</b> short. <b>Leaves</b> 15–30, many-ranked, finely appressed, erect, green to reddish green, 20–30 × 0.1–0.4 cm, uniformly scaly throughout; sheath rust-colored, broadly triangular, flat, not forming pseudobulb, 0.8–1.8 cm wide; blade very narrowly linear-triangular, ribbed, leathery, margins involute, apex filiform-attenuate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape conspicuous, erect, 8–15 cm, 2–4 mm diam.; bracts densely imbricate, erect; sheath of bracts, especially upper ones, narrowing abruptly into blade; spikes erect, palmate (rarely simple), linear, compressed, 1–4 × 0.5–0.6 cm, apex acute; branches 1–5. <b>Floral</b> bracts imbricate, erect, green or tinged red, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), ovate, keeled only toward apex, 0.8–1.2 cm, thin-leathery, base not visible at anthesis, apex attenuate to acute, surfaces appressed-pale scaly, venation slight. <b>Flowers</b> 3–15, conspicuous; sepals with adaxial pair connate, elliptic, keeled, 0.8–1 cm, thin-leathery, veined, apex acute, surfaces slightly scaly; corolla tubular, petals erect, lavender, ligulate, 1.8–2.2 cm; stamens exserted; stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral. <b>Fruits</b> 2–3 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in swamps and humid forests
|elevation=0–60 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|discussion=<p>It is probable that Mexican and Central American materials represent one or more additional species.</p>
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name=Tillandsia setacea
|author=
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tillandsia tenuifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Epiphytic on a variety of hosts in swamps and humid forests
|elevation=0–60 m
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Flora Indiae Occidentalis
|publication year=1797
|special status=
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia setacea
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