Bromeliaceae
Tillandsia

Tillandsia cucaensis Wittm.

First published in Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 7 (1891)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Mexico to Central America. It is an epiphyte or lithophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Pinzón, J.P. & al. (2019). Taxonomic treatment of the Tillandsia utriculata complex (Bromeliaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 104: 262-323.
  • Pinzón, J.P., Ramírez, I.M. & Carnevali, G. (2012). The re-establishment of Tillandsia cucaensis (Bromeliaceae), a good species formerly confused with a new species from the Gulf of Honduras. Phytotaxa 61: 1-16.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Tillandsia makoyana.]
  • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. [Cited as Tillandsia makoyana.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Pinzón, J.P., Ramírez, I.M. & Carnevali, G. (2012). The re-establishment of Tillandsia cucaensis (Bromeliaceae), a good species formerly confused with a new species from the Gulf of Honduras. Phytotaxa 61: 1-16.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0