MatBio: EPIPHYTES & PARASITES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

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Taxonomy
« Back To Flowering Plants Subphylum Angiospermae
- Monocots Class Liliopsida
  - 2 Agaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies Order Asparagales
  - 5 Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies Order Poales

Bartram's Airplant ¹
Tillandsia bartramii

Ballmoss ²
Tillandsia recurvata

Southern Needleleaf ³
Tillandsia setacea

Spanish Moss ⁴
Tillandsia usneoides

Giant Airplant ⁵
Tillandsia utriculata

Florida Butterfly Orchid ⁶
Encyclia tampensis

Green-fly Orchid ⁷
Epidendrum magnoliae

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

Photo Credits

1. (c) Carlos G Velazco-Macias, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Carlos G Velazco-Macias
2. (c) Jerry Oldenettel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
3. (c) Trish Hartmann, some rights reserved (CC BY)
4. (c) +vega, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
5. (c) Alex in situ, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
6. (c) Malcolm Manners, some rights reserved (CC BY)
7. (c) NC Orchid, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

MatBio: EPIPHYTES & PARASITES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Bartram's Airplant 1 Tillandsia bartramii

Ballmoss 2 Tillandsia recurvata

Southern Needleleaf 3 Tillandsia setacea

Spanish Moss 4 Tillandsia usneoides

Giant Airplant 5 Tillandsia utriculata

Florida Butterfly Orchid 6 Encyclia tampensis

Green-fly Orchid 7 Epidendrum magnoliae