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|accepted_name=Tillandsia variabilis
|accepted_authority=Schlechtendal
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Linnaea
|place=18:418. 1844
|year=1844
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tillandsia houzeavii
|authority=Chapman
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tillandsia valenzuelana
|authority=A. Richard
}}
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia variabilis
|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 variabilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>usually single, rarely clustering, flowering to 40 cm. <b>Stems</b> short. <b>Leaves</b> 15–20, many-ranked, spreading, gray-green or flushed rose, 12–30 × 1–2 cm, finely appressed-scaly; sheath pale to nearly chestnut brown, ovate, flat, not forming pseudobulb, 2–4 cm wide; blade narrowly triangular, tapering evenly from base to apex, nearly plane to channeled, soft, brittle, margins involute, apex attentuate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape conspicuous, erect or ascending, 3–10 cm, 2–5 mm diam.; bracts densely imbricate, erect, blade often hanging, like leaves but gradually smaller; sheath of bracts narrowing abruptly into blade; spikes erect or ascending, never palmate, linear, compressed, 5–20 × 0.8–1.2 cm, apex acute; simple or laxly 2–3 lateral branches. <b>Floral</b> bracts laxly imbricate, erect, green, red, or purple, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), elliptic, keeled toward apex, 1.8–2 × 0.6–0.9 cm, leathery, base visible in fruit, apex acute, surfaces glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> 5–30, conspicuous; sepals with adaxial pair connate, oblong, keeled, 1.5–1.8 cm, thin-leathery, slightly veined, apex obtuse, surfaces glabrous; corolla tubular, petals erect, lavender-blue, ligulate, to 3 cm; stamens exserted; stigma exserted, conduplicate-spiral. <b>Fruits</b> to 3 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Epiphytic in moist, shaded habitats
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
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name=Tillandsia variabilis
|author=
|authority=Schlechtendal
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tillandsia houzeavii;Tillandsia valenzuelana
|basionyms=
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Epiphytic in moist, shaded habitats
|elevation=0–30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Linnaea
|publication year=1844
|special status=
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia variabilis
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