Tillandsia usneoides


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Noun1.Tillandsia usneoides - dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry rootsTillandsia usneoides - dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
black moss, long moss, old man's beard, Spanish moss
genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia - large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses
aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
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Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides (L.) (Poales: Bromeliaceae), is an epiphytic plant that ranges from the coastal plain of the southeastern USA extending through Central America south to Argentina and Chile (Garth 1964).
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Section I: Biological Sciences Bailey Science Center, room 3009 Paul T. Arnold, presiding
Entre las especies que se encuentran estan el palo verde (Parkinsonia aculeata), el palo santo (Bursera graveolens); cactaceas como el cardo (Armatocereus spp.) y el giganton (Neoraimondia sp.); bosques de algarrobo (Prosopis sp.), ceibo (Ceiba trichistandra), zapote (Capparis angulata), el charan (Caesaelpinia paipai), el porotillo o huayruro (Capparis eucalyptifolia) y plantas epifitas como la salvajina (Tillandsia usneoides), las achupallas (Pitcairmia furfuracea) y las orquideas (Cattleya sp., Oncidium sp.Ferreyra, 1983; Pennington et al., 2000; Linares-Palomino, 2004).
Evaluacion de cambios en la cobertura y uso de la tierra con imagenes de satelite en Piura - Peru
For germinating Tillandsia usneoides pollen I used the Kwack (1965) formulation because it works well with a number of plants.
Germinated Tillandsia usneoides pollen
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Diversity and distribution of vascular epiphytes in an insular Brazilian coastal forest
The geographic range of the Seminole bat largely coincides with the range of Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) in the southeastern United States (Barbour and Davis, 1969).
Bats of Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland
Mimic the jungle Parker accented his layered plantings by setting a 15-foot-long manzanita branch in concrete, then adorning it with tillandsias of various shapes, sizes, colors, and textures, including filmy Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides).
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Epiphytes of Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), true
A review of the temperate broad-leaved evergreen forest zone of Southeastern North America: floristic affinities and arborescent vegetation types

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