Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.

Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.

BROMELIACEAE

- Bromeliad family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.

Nomencl. ref.: Species Plantarum ed. 2 1763
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Spanish moss

English name: Spanish-moss

French name: fille de l'air

German name: Louisianamoos

Grown habit: Forb/herb, Vine
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Dendropogon usneoides (L.) Raf.
= Renealmia usneoides L.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Zingiberidae
Order: Bromeliales
Family: Bromeliaceae
Genus: Tillandsia
Species:

Page counter: 2207 ( AVG: 221.17 / 219.883 )

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Tillandsia usneoides
Habit at Sarasota, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Habit at Haiku, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Habit at Sunshine Orchids of Maui Haiku, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Habit at Kipahulu, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Habit at Kihei, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Lucca, Orto Botanico nel Parco delle Mura, LU, Toscana, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Tillandsia usneoides
Habit at Kaanapali, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Habit at South Lido Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
On tree at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
On tree at Green Cay Wetlands Boynton Beach, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

Tillandsia usneoides
Draping forest at Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
Flowers at Upper Kimo Dr Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Tillandsia usneoides
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 456.

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- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MD, MS, NC, SC, TX, VA), USA+ (PR, VI)

Distributional map for Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.
Map for Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Tillandsia utriculata L. [247]
2) Tillandsia variabilis Schltdl. [240]
3) Tillandsia x smalliana Luther [246]
4) Timmia bavarica Hessl. [299]
5) Tithonia argophylla D.C. Eaton [243]
6) Tithonia speciosa (Hook.) Griseb. [162]
7) Tithymalus obtusatus (Pursh) Klotzsch & Garcke [75]
8) Tolmiea menziesii (Pursh) Torr. & A. Gray [257]
9) Tonestus kingii (D.C. Eaton) G.L. Nesom var. kingii [230]
10) Torilis arvensis (Huds.) Link ssp. arvensis [585]

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