Tillandsia setacea, the southern needleleaf,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Tillandsia. It has a scattered, disjunct distribution in the southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia), northwestern and southern Mexico (Jalisco, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Campeche), Guatemala, the West Indies (Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico) and the State of Pará in northeastern Brazil.[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Tillandsia setacea
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Bromeliaceae
Genus: Tillandsia
Subgenus: Tillandsia subg. Tillandsia
Species:
T. setacea
Binomial name
Tillandsia setacea
Swartz
Synonyms[1]
  • Renealmia disticha L.
  • Tillandsia calamifolia Salisb.
  • Tillandsia caespitosa Leconte
  • Tillandsia disticha (L.) Willd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. 1830, illegitimate homonym, not Kunth 1816
  • Diaphoranthema versicolor Beer
  • Platystachys disticha (L.) Beer
  • Vriesea disticha (L.) Kuntze
  • Tillandsia bromoides Mez

Cultivars

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  • Tillandsia 'But'[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Tillandsia setacea​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  3. ^ Flora of North America, Tillandsia setacea Swartz, Flora Indiae Occidentalis. 1: 593. 1797.
  4. ^ Biota of North America Program, 2013 county distribution map
  5. ^ Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  6. ^ García-Mendoza, A. J. & J. Meave del Castillo. 2011. Diversidad Florística de Oaxaca: de Musgos a Angispermas 1–351. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria
  7. ^ Utley, J. F. 1994. 5. Tillandsia L. 6: 100–122. In G. Davidse, M. Sousa Sánchez & A.O. Chater (eds.) Flora Mesoamericana. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, D. F.
  8. ^ Smith, L.B. & R. J. Downs. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae), Part II. Flora Neotropica, Monograph 14(2): 663–1492
  9. ^ Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
  10. ^ BSI Cultivar Registry Archived 2009-12-02 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 11 October 2009