Tillandsia

  • Authority

    Smith, Lyman B. 1967. Bromeliaceae of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14: 15-68.

  • Family

    Bromeliaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Tillandsia

  • Description

    Genus Description - Acaulescent herbs in the Guayana Highland area; leaves rosulate or fasciculate, polystichous, entire, ligulate or narrowly triangular; scape usually distinct; inflorescence of distichous-flowered spikes in the Guayana Highland species; sepals usually symmetric, free, or equally or posteriorly joined; petals free, naked; stamens of various lengths relative to the petals and pistil; ovary superior, glabrous; ovules usually many, caudate; capsule septicidal; seeds erect, narrowly cylindric or fusiform, the plumose appendage white, straight, basal.

  • Discussion

    Allardtia A. Dietr. Allg. Gartenzeit. 20: 241. 1852.

    Platystachys K. Koch ex Beer, Bromel. 18, 80. 1857.

    Type species: T. utriculata L.

  • Distribution

    Over 350 species from southeastern United States to northern Argentina and Chile. Mostly epiphytic and at low elevations.

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