Tillandsia tomasellii De Luca, Sabato & Balduzzi
Status: Synonym
Publ: Brittonia 31: 474-7. (1979)
Type: TYPE: MEXICO. OAXACA: by Rio Hondo, Dept. Yautepec, on the road to Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, 12 Ju11969, De Luca, Sabato .& Balduzzi s.n. (HOLOTYPUS: NY; ISOTYPI: FI, NAP, PAV).
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Taxonomic Notes:
- Treated as a synonym of Tillandsia xerographica Rohweder —See Gardner 1984a p. 374
- T. tomasellii is on a polytomy with several other species which means that its relationship is not resolved. However, the two samples of T. xerographica have a short branch of their own which means that they share a few nucleotid characters which are lacking in T. tomasellii. This may be used as an argument to separate T. tomaselli from T. xerographica as a separate taxon. —See Castro et al. 2009 p. 215
