Bromeliaceae

Tillandsia L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 286 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropical & Subtropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, French Guiana, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Netherlands Antilles, New Mexico, Nicaragua, North Carolina, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Southwest Caribbean, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Virginia, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Queensland, Society Is.

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Barfuss, M.H.J., Till, W., Leme, E.M.C., Pinzón, J.P., Manzanares, J.M., Halbritter, H., Samuel, R. & Brown, G.K. (2016). Taxonomic revision of Bromeliaceae subfam. Tillandsioideae based on multi-locus DNA sequence phylogeny and morphology. Phytotaxa 279: 1-97.
  • Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 4, 1983 Irwin, H.S. [34481], Brazil K000976214 Yes
Dayton, N.M. [2033], Ecuador 63157.000 No
Camerik, A.M. [b619], Brazil K000976209 Yes
Graham [s.n.], Brazil K000976215 Yes
Melo, E. [PCD 1783], Brazil K000976204 Yes
Inácio, E. [78], Brazil K000976212 Yes
Inácio, E. [78], Brazil K000976213 Yes
Villarouco, F.M.O. [122], Brazil K000976210 Yes
Oliveira, F.C.A. [1185], Brazil K000976207 Yes
Burchell [3493], Brazil K000976216 Yes
Fonseca, M.L. [2433], Brazil K000976206 Yes
Campelo, M.J. [47], Brazil K000976211 Yes
74906.000 No
Orlandi, R. [PCD 503], Brazil K000976205 Yes
Milliken, W. [291], Brazil K000976208 Yes

Sources

  • Art and Illustrations in Digifolia

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

  • Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible

    • ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 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 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images