Tillandsia usneoides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Bromeliaceae
- Genus
- Tillandsia
- Species
- Tillandsia usneoides
- Scientific Name
- Tillandsia usneoides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Spanish moss
Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is an epiphytic flowering plant that often grows upon large trees in tropical and subtropical climates. It is native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America (as far south as northern Patagonia), the Southern United States, and West Indies. It has been naturalized in Queensland (Australia). It is colloquially known as "old man's beard" in several places, and known as "grandpa's beard" in French Polynesia. It has the widest distribution of any bromeliad.
Most known in the United States, it commonly is found on the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) and bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) in the lowlands, swamps, and marshes of the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states, from the coast of southeastern Virginia to Florida and west to southern Arkansas and Texas. While it superficially resembles its namesake, the lichen Usnea, it is neither a lichen nor a moss (instead being a member of the bromeliad family, Bromeliaceae), and it is not native to Spain.
...Tillandsia usneoides in languages:
- Chinese
- 松蘿鳳梨
- Danish
- spaniolskæg
- Dutch
- Spaans mos
- English
- Spanish moss
- English
- Spanish-Moss
- French
- Barbe de vieillard
- German
- Louisianamoos
- German
- Spanisches Moos
- Japanese
- サルオガセモドキ
- Lithuanian
- Kedeninė tilandsija
- Portuguese
- Barba-de-velho
- Portuguese
- Salambaia
- Portuguese
- Barba-de-pau
- Portuguese
- Salambaia-comprida
- Russian
- Тилландсия уснеевидная
- Swedish
- spansk mossa
- Thai
- เคราฤๅษี
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Tillandsia aizoides
- Tillandsia andicola
- Tillandsia angulosa
- Tillandsia brealitoensis
- Tillandsia caliginosa
- Tillandsia capillaris
- Tillandsia castellanii
- Tillandsia copynii
- Tillandsia cotagaitensis
- Tillandsia erecta
- Tillandsia funebris
- Tillandsia gilliesii
- Tillandsia hirta
- Tillandsia landbeckii
- Tillandsia loliacea
- Tillandsia minutiflora
- Tillandsia mollis
- Tillandsia myosura
- Tillandsia pedicellata
- Tillandsia rectangula
- Tillandsia recurvata
- Tillandsia retorta
- Tillandsia spiralipetala
- Tillandsia tenebra
- Tillandsia tricholepis
- Tillandsia usneoides
- Tillandsia virescens
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