Gouda 2020a (Article) Tillandsia

Natural hybrids of Tillandsia argentina and a few others previously published as species

Author(s):—E.J. Gouda

Publication:—Journal of the Bromeliad Society 69(2): 87-98. (2020)

Abstract:—Some Tillandsia species easily form hybrids with other Tillandsia species and some like Tillandsia complanata Bentham (1846) even hybridize with species of other genera. Tillandsia argentina Wright (1907) is one that easily forms hybrids with other species. So probably there is a lack of physiological barriers between this and other species that probably did not occur in the past in the same distributional area. It is known that unrelated Tillandsia species that do not grow in the same area can easily be crossed with each other, because there are no physiological or biotic or abiotic barriers which are needed to avoid hybridizing. As biotic factors you can think of pollinators that do not visit both species or different flowering time during the year, and as an abiotic factor different elevation.

Published names (8):

Tillandsia cornissaensis x
Tillandsia dorotheae x
Tillandsia genseri x
Tillandsia guelzii x
Tillandsia pfeufferi x
Tillandsia walterrichteri x
xGuzlandsia
xGuzlandsia barbiei

Taxonomy:—Tillandsia pucaraensis Considered a synonym of Tillandsia x guelzii Rauh emend. Gouda (p.3 (online)).