Large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses

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Tillandsia \Til*land"si*a\, n. [NL., after Prof. Tillands, of Abo, in Finland.] (Bot.) An immense genus of epiphytic bromeliaceous plants confined to tropical and subtropical America. They usually bear a rosette of narrow overlapping basal leaves, which ...

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n. Any of the genus (taxlink Tillandsia genus noshow=1) of American epiphytes.

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Tillandsia is a genus of around 650 species of evergreen , perennial flowering plants in the family Bromeliaceae , native to the forests, mountains and deserts of Central and South America, the southern United States and the West Indies. They have naturally ...