Pinzon et al. 2017 (Article) Tillandsia

The Tillandsia Multicaulis Clade (bromeliaceae: Tillandsioideae): A Case Of Convergent Floral Evolution

Author(s):—J.P Pinzón, W. Till, I. RamÍrez M., G. Carnevali & M.H.J. Barfuss

Publication:—Bromeliaceae 52(2): 37-50. (2017)

Abstract:—The phylogenetic hypothesis and taxonomy of Tillandsia L., the largest genus within the Bromeliaceae family, has been recently revised and some lineages were re-established or newly recognized as genera [Barfussia Manzan. & W.Till, Lemeltonia Barfuss & W.Till, Pseudalcantarea (Mez) Pinzón & Barfuss, Wallisia (Regel) É.Morren], based on DNA sequence data and on a new set of morphological characters (Barfuss et al. 2016). However, within the genus Tillandsia in the narrowed sense, the phylogenetic relationships of species still need attention. Several studies have been conducted aiming to elucidate the composition and phylogeny of some particular groups of species, for example the T. macdougallii complex (Granados 2008), the bulbous species of Tillandsia (Chew et al. 2010), the T. capillaris complex (Castello et al. 2016) and the T. utriculata complex (Pinzón et al. 2016), but none of them were designed to assess the evolutionary relationships of the whole genus or even subgenera using an exhaustive sampling.