Category
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Tillandsioideae
Tillandsioideae is a subfamily of plants in the bromeliad family Bromeliaceae. This subfamily contains the greatest number of species (about 1,400). Most are epiphytic or lithophytic, growing in trees or on rocks where they absorb water and nutrients from the air. Spanish moss of the genus Tillandsia is a well-known species. Bromeliads in the genera Guzmania and Vriesea are the more commonly cultivated members of this subfamily.

Wallisia cyanea
species of plant

Glomeropitcairnia
Glomeropitcarnia is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Tillandsioideae. The genus name is from the Latin “glomero” (to form into a ball) and the genus Pitcairnia. It has two known species, native to Venezuela, Trinidad and the Lesser Antilles.
Tillandsia lindenii
species of plant
Goudaea
Goudaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae.
Glomeropitcairnia penduliflora
species of plant
Tillandsia anceps
species of plant
Lutheria
Lutheria is a genus of plants in the family Bromeliaceae. It is native to northern South America.
Gregbrownia
Gregbrownia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae.
Pseudalcantarea
Pseudalcantarea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. Its native range is Mexico to Central America. It was first described as the subgenus Pseudalcantarea of Tillandsia before being raised to a full genus in 2016.
Glomeropitcairnia erectiflora
species of plant

Gregbrownia fulgens
species of plant
Tillandsia pretiosa
species of plant
Zizkaea
Zizkaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It only contains one known species, Zizkaea tuerckheimii.
==Taxonomy==
The genus name of Zizkaea is in honour of Georg Zizka (b. 1955), a German evolutionary botanist and also specialist in Bromeliaceae. The Latin specific epithet of tuerckheimii refers to Hans von Türckheim (1853-1920), a German plant collector.
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in Phytotaxa Vol.279 on page 55 in 2016.
==Distribution==
It is native to the Dominican Republic and Haiti on the island of Hispanio
Tillandsia platyrhachis
species of plant

Wallisia
Wallisia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It is also in the Tillandsioideae subfamily.
Lemeltonia
Lemeltonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae.

Barfussia
Barfussia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae.
Tillandsia truncata
species of plant
Waltillia
Waltillia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It was considered to be a monotypic genus until the 2021 description of W. itambana.
Mezobromelia brownii
species of plant
Pseudalcantarea grandis
species of plant
Tillandsia monadelpha
species of plant
Tillandsia laxissima
species of plant
Mezobromelia lyman-smithii
species of plant
Tillandsia acosta-solisii
species of plant