Tillandsia rhomboidea André

Literature references:

Andre 1889: 20 Bromtravels (Web) BSA (Web) FCBS (Web) Gardner 1982: 130* Golinski 1997 Holst 1994: 15(1):147 Isley III 2009: 180* J. Bromeliad Soc.: 35:26 Oliva-Esteve 2000a: 200: 200,245 Rauh 1981, 1990: Abb. 77 , 78* Roguenant 2001: 175,619 Shimizu & Takizawa 1998: 82 Smith & Downs 1977: 755,757: 956* Tropicos

U.S. Nat. Herb. Veliz 2010: 15*

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Comments:

• Information in Selbyana 15(2) 1994
  This species is frequently confused in herbaria with the more common Tillandsia fasciculata. Tillandsia rhomboidea is a smaller plant with less showy inflorescence. It also tends to occur at higher elevations than T. fasciculata, usually in humid or cloud forests, while T. fasciculata is more commonly a species of lower, drier localities.
  Tillandsia rhomboidea ranges from Costa Rica to Venezuela. In Central America it has been known by the synonym T. acostae Mez & Tonduz. In Venezuela the species has been collected in the Sierra de San Luis and in Estado Tachira, both in the western sector of the country, and in Parque Nacional Henry Pittier, Estado Aragua, in the central section of the Coastal Range in northern Venezuela. We have also collected and cultivated plants of this species from Parque Nacional Guatopo, Estado Miranda, at 500-600 m. —See Smith & Downs 1977