Distribution: BRAZIL; Minas Gerais

Habitat: 1,300 m. Elev.

Etymology: Nidularium linehamii was named in honor of one of its collectors, Thomas U. Lineham,Jr., born in 1919 at Poquonock Bridge (near Croton), Connecticut, USA. A member of the United States Armed Forces, Tom Lineham retired in 1968 with the rank of colonel. He worked for many years as part of military academy teams (U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force), and as a member of the Armed Forces, he received several medals, including the United States Air Force Commendation Medal (1965) and the United States Legion of Merit (1968). He was president of the Bromeliad Society of Central Florida from 1977 to 1978 and worked as a catalog librarian at Florida Technological University until 1985.Thomas U. Lineham,Jr., became well known internationally as one of the most talented editors the Journal of the Bromeliad Society has ever had, a post he held from 1984 to 1995. He traveled to Brazil twice and was a keynote speaker at the Third Brazilian Bromeliad Symposium that took place at Itatiaia National Park in 1992. This event marked the beginning of efforts to create the Sociedade Brasileira de Bromelias (SBBr) which came to pass in 1993. The periodical "Bromelia " was inspired by the prolific editorial contribution of Tom Lineham to the world of bromeliads.