Tillandsia geminiflora Brongn.

Taxonomic Change:

• Lectotypification: BRAZIL. Santa Catarina: [Florianópolis], 4 October 1822, Dumont d’Urville s.n. (lectotype P P00438705, syntype P00753228) —See Rossado et al. 2024 p. 37

Literature references:

An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires: 36: tab.11a Baensch & Baensch 1994: 198 Belg. Hortic.: 30:191 BSA (Web) Castellanos 1945: 90 Die Bromelie: 1996(s3):16 Ehlers 1997: 16 FCBS (Web) Golinski 1997 Gouda 1987: 110 Gross 1992: 61 Iheringia: 51(1):33 Isley III 1987: 139 Isley III 2009: 70,71 J. Bromeliad Soc.: 26:245 Klein & Klein 2013c: 2013(3): 149 Klein 2021b: 42-45 Lindley 1836: 28:63 Machado 2012: 163* Mee 1992: 123

NY Bot. Garden Oliva-Esteve 2000a: 220 Padilla 1981: 15 Rauh 1979c: pl.37 Rauh 1981, 1990: Farbb. 37 Reitz 1983: 71 Richter 1962, 1978: 253,364 Roguenant 2001: 383 Röth & Weber 1991: 113c Shimizu & Takizawa 1998: 55 Shimizu 1992: 17 Siqueira & Leme 2006: 340 Smith & Downs 1977: 804,805 Takizawa 1998 Tardivo & Cervi 2001: 22:72b Vidal 1996: 25 Wanderly & Martins 2007: 124 Wendt 2010: 44

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Comments:

• Culture and use : A decorative species and very beautiful at bloom time (April-May); easily grown like an epiphyte in window or in greenhouse and can be propagated by seed, on vertical wire gauze. —See Gouda 1987