Tillandsia xiphioides

Systematics
Family: Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) Subfamily: Tillandsioideae Genus: Tillandsia Subgenus: Anoplophytum Species: xiphioides Subspecies: xiphioides prolata Varieties: xiphioides lutea minor tafiensis
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Tillandsia xiphioides Ker Gawler, 1816

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Distribution:

Bolivia, Northern-Argentina to Southern-Brazil
epiphytic, saxicolous in dry zones
700 - 2600 m

 

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Imagelinks:

• Images - Photo Index of the FCBS-website

Original Description:

Tillandsia xiphioides Ker Gawler (1816) Botanical Register; consisting of coloured ... 2: t. 105

(Bot. Reg.)

Synonyms:

• Tillandsia suaveolens Lemaire, 1843
• Anoplophytum xyphoides Beer, 1857
• Tillandsia macronemis Grisebach, 1879
• Phytarrhiza xiphioides (Ker-Gawler) E. Morren, 1879
• Tillandsia sericea Hortus ex E. Morren, 1879
• Tillandsia odorata Gillies ex Baker, 1887
• Tillandsia xiphoides E. Morren ex Wittmack, 1888
• Tillandsia unca Hicken, 1912; non Grisebach, 1874

Literature:

• Smith & Downs (1977) Flora Neotropica 14(2): 815-817
• Isley (1987) Tillandsia, The World's Most Unusual Airplants :128
• Hromadnik (1989) Die Bromelie 3: 61-65
• Hromadnik (1990) Die Bromelie 1: 12-15
• Hromadnik (1990) Die Bromelie 2: 36-39
• Kiff (1991) A distributional checklist of the Genus Tillandsia :56
• Baensch (1994) Blooming Bromeliads :208
• Luther (2008) An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials Edit. XI :97