Tillandsia fasciculata

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Tillandsia fasciculata.jpg

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Romand-Monnier, F. |author2=Contu, S. |date=2013 |title=Tillandsia fasciculata |page=e.T44393356A68278050 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T44393356A68278050.en |access-date=8 December 2022}}

|genus = Tillandsia

|parent = Tillandsia subg. Tillandsia

|species = fasciculata

|authority = Sw.{{cite book |first=Paul T. |last=Isley |title=Tillandsia: the World's Most Unusual Air Plants |volume=1 |publisher=Botanical Press |page=54}}

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms = *Tillandsia eminens Lindl.

• Vriesea glaucophylla Hook.
• Platystachys glaucophylla (Hook.) Beer
• Platystachys havanensis Beer
• Tillandsia havanensis Beer
• Tillandsia macrostachya Klotzsch ex Beer
• Tillandsia pungens Mez
• Tillandsia beutelspacheri Matuda ex L.B.Sm.
• Tillandsia wilsonii S.Watson
• Tillandsia hystricina Small

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Tillandsia fasciculata, commonly known as the giant airplant,{{PLANTS|id=TIFA|taxon=Tillandsia fasciculata|accessdate=10 December 2015}} giant wild pine, or cardinal airplant, is a species of bromeliad that is native to Central America, Mexico, the West Indies, northern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, northern Brazil), and the southeastern United States (Georgia and Florida).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=268971 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=222000394 Flora of North America, cardinal airplant, Tillandsia fasciculata Swartz, Prodr. 56. 1788. ]{{cite book |first=Ray |last=Neyland |title=Wildflowers of the Coastal Plain: A Field Guide |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-80-713407-8 |page=87}}{{cite journal |last1=Luther |first1=Harry E. |title=An Annotated Checklist of the Bromeliaceae of Costa Rica |journal=Selbyana |date=1995 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=230–234 |url=https://journals.flvc.org/selbyana/article/view/120747 |jstor=41759911 |issn=0361-185X}}{{cite journal |last1=Espejo-Serna |first1=Adolfo |last2=López-Ferrari |first2=Ana Rosa |last3=Ramírez-morillo |first3=Ivón |last4=Holst |first4=Bruce K. |last5=Luther |first5=Harry E. |last6=Till |first6=Walter |title=Checklist of Mexican Bromeliaceae with Notes on Species Distribution and Levels of Endemism |journal=Selbyana |date=1 June 2004 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=33–86 |url=https://journals.flvc.org/selbyana/article/view/121512 |language=en |issn=2689-0682 |jstor=41760147 }}{{cite journal |last1=Holst |first1=Bruce K. |title=Checklist of Venezuelan Bromeliaceae with Notes on Species Distribution by State and Levels of Endemism |journal=Selbyana |date=1 February 1994 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=132–149 |url=https://journals.flvc.org/selbyana/article/view/121000 |language=en |issn=2689-0682 |jstor=41759858 }}{{cite web |last1=Luther |first1=H.E. |title=Bromeliaceae of the United States (excluding Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) |url=https://selby.org/wp-content/uploads/Bromeliaceae_of_the_United_States_Excluding_Puerto_Rico_and_the_Virgin_Islands.pdf |website=Marie Selby Botanical Gardens }}[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Tillandsia%20fasciculata.png Biota of North America Program, 2013 county range map] Within the United States, this airplant is at risk of extirpation from the Mexican bromeliad weevil, Metamasius callizona. A related plant, Tillandsia utriculata, sometimes called the "wild pine", is endemic to the same areas.