Taxon: Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.

Common names:

• ball-moss   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• bunch-moss   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• bågtillandsia   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Baja Norte, Baja Sur, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Chiapas, Federal District, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina [n.]; Paraguay; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Espejo-Serna, A. et al. 2004. Checklist of Mexican Bromeliaceae with notes on species distribution and levels of endemism. Selbyana 25:71–72.
• Howard, R. 1979. Flora of the lesser Antilles. 3:421.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 4:472–473.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Smith, L. B. & R. J. Downs. 1977. Tillandsioideae (Bromeliaceae). Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 14(2):888–892.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Tillandsia recurvata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Tillandsia recurvata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Tillandsia recurvata.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Renealmia recurvata L. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Tillandsia recurvata (L.) L.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Tillandsia recurvata cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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