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Ball Moss

Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.

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Tillandsia recurvata (Ball Moss) is a species of tree in the family bromeliads. They have a self-supporting growth form. They are native to US Minor Outlying Islands, GoiáS, Pará, Espirito Santo, Distrito Federal, Cerrado, Rio Grande Do Norte, Alagoas, The Neotropics, Bahia, ParaíBa, Ceará, Santa Catarina, U.S. Virgin Islands, Sergipe, Pernambuco, Rio Grande Do Sul, Caatinga, The Contiguous United States, Rio De Janeiro, Mata Atlântica, Pampa, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso Do Sul, SãO Paulo, Piauí, Puerto Rico, and Paraná. They have simple, broad leaves.

URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0900033
Definition: whole plant arborescent

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URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/self-supportingGrowthForm
Definition: an organism relying on its own supportive tissues rather than a climbing habit to achieve vertical growth

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/5854968

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3462372

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3393129

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3463930

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3463504

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q278512
Definition: tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3390290

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3408096

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q217151
Definition: one of the eight terrestrial ecozones constituting the Earth's land surface
Attribution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ecozone_Neotropic.svg

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3471168

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3393098

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3402362

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3450387

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/4796775

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3447799

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3392268

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3451133

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q375816

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URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q578170

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3451189

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q477047

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URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q184382

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3457153

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3457415

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3448433

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/3392213

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URI: http://www.geonames.org/4566966

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URI: https://www.geonames.org/3455077

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0020042
Definition: A leaf in which the lamina is undivided

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0002359
Definition: A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's width being notably higher than its length.

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EOL has data for 20 attributes, including:

cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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fruit length
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0001366
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3 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Puerto Rico
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/4566966
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Leaf Complexity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0007484
- Definition: whether a leaf is intricate or compounded
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simple
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PO_0020042
- Definition: A leaf in which the lamina is undivided
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leaf length
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0001133
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31.7 cm
leaf morphology
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0019932
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broad
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0002359
- Definition: A quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's width being notably higher than its length.
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native range includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NativeRange
- Definition: Lists jurisdictions in which a given organism is a member of the undisturbed fauna or flora.
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U.S. Virgin Islands
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/4796775
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photosynthetic pathway
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/photosyntheticPathway
- Definition: the biochemical pathway a plant uses to gain carbon for growth and reproduction. Plants have evolved three photosynthetic pathways, each in response to distinct environmental conditions, resulting in differences in their ecological patterns of growth and distribution.
- Comment: https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/the-ecology-of-photosynthetic-pathways-15785165
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cam photosynthetic plant
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q22283117
- Definition: Crassulacean acid metabolism. A carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions.[1] In a plant using full CAM, the stomata in the leaves remain shut during the day to reduce evapotranspiration, but open at night to collect carbon dioxide (CO2). The CO2 is stored as the four-carbon acid malate in vacuoles at night, and then in the daytime, the malate is transported to chloroplasts where it is converted back to CO2, which is then used during photosynthesis.
- Attribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism
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plant growth form
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0900032
- Definition: whole plant growth form. eg: herbaceous, tree, liana
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herb
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0022142
- Definition: whole plant herbaceous
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plant lifeform
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FLOPO_0900022
- Definition: whole plant lifeform
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lithophyte
- URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1321691
- Definition: plants that grow in or on rocks
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trophic guild
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
- Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)
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photoautotroph
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ECOCORE_00000130
- Definition: An autotroph which is capable of transforming light into chemical energy.
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type specimen repository
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
- Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).
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Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Zentraleinrichtung der Freien Universität Berlin
- URI: http://biocol.org/urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:15534
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of ball moss. View this species on GBIF

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