Kent O. Foltz, Prof. W. N. Mundy, Joha G. Ross, T. D. Adlerman, J. C. Kilgour, H. J. Shelley, J. E. Bentley, F. A. Cavanaugh, N. J. Carriker, W. N. Mundy, S. J. Smith, W. B. Scudder,
... Run to Cover, Medical Uses of Spanish Moss (Tillandsia Usneoides), Stimulants, Periscope Fractures of the Clavicle, Diseases ...
1895 - Gale Group | NCCO-STM 1of2
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Tópico(s): Growth and nutrition in plants
1904 - University of Chicago Press | Botanical Gazette
Ragan M. Callaway, Kurt O. Reinhart, Shirley C. Tucker, Steven C. Pennings,
... different host tree species for the vascular epiphyte Tillandsia usneoides in the southeastern USA. Different host tree species had substantially different abundances of Tillandsia , and these abundances were correlated with the composition of nonvascular epiphyte communities. In greenhouse experiments Tillandsia grew significantly faster on the branches of Quercus ... a species with very high natural abundances of Tillandsia ) when the dominant lichen on Q. virginiana was ... times more common on poor host species for Tillandsia than on good host species, reduced Tillandsia seedling ...
Tópico(s): Bryophyte Studies and Records
2001 - Wiley | Oikos
Tatiana Miranda, Anita Roth‐Nebelsick, Annett Junginger, Martin Ebner,
... study addresses interrelationships between a) vertical distribution of Tillandsia species on phorophytes of Ilha-Grande Island in ... plant water content and d) morphological traits of Tillandsia leaves with respect to absorptive scales. For this ... specific epiphyte associations. It was found that the Tillandsia species are heterogeneously distributed within tree canopies. The ... settled by different assemblages of all other considered Tillandsia species. Microsite conditions (temperature and humidity) were shown ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2020 - Elsevier BV | Flora
Anna Rose C. Zambrano, Virgilio C. Linis, Maria Rejane J. Nepacina, Mark Louie T. Silvestre, Juanito Raphael F. Foronda, Jose Isagani B. Janairo,
... dimensional analyses of the wetting property of selected Tillandsia L. were conducted. The wettability on the leaf surfaces of three Tillandsia species and one hybrid cultivar has significant variations ( ... its spreading and/or liquid repellency. Among the Tillandsia species, T. schiedeana Steudel has the densest trichomes. ... the abaxial leaf surface (p < .0001). All examined Tillandsia exhibited foliar water uptake. One of them, T. ... surfaces, the desirable wetting properties of all four Tillandsia plants used in this study were determined. Among ...
Tópico(s): Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
2019 - Elsevier BV | Biotribology
Edgar Antonio Estrella-Parra, María Flores-Cruz, Gerardo Blancas‐Flores, Stephen D. Koch, Francisco Javier Alarcón-Aguilar,
Tillandsia L. genus comprises 649 species, with different uses at different times. T. usneoides L. uses are ... some manufactured products, as polish and packing fruit. Tillandsia has a favorable reputation as medicine: for leucorrhea, ... remedy, emetic, analgesic, purgative, contraceptive, antispasmodic and diuretic. Tillandsia chemical composition includes cycloartane triterpenes and hydroxy-flavonoids, ... least 24 species. Several extracts and compounds from Tillandsia spp. have been reported with pharmacological actions, as ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
2019 - University of Santiago | Boletin Latinoamericano y del Caribe de plantas Medicinales y Aromaticas
Tania Chew, Efraín De Luna, Dolores González,
Abstract Tillandsia subgenus Tillandsia as defined by Gardner includes 269 species in five groups. Within Group I, species in the Tillandsia bulbosa complex share a remarkable synapomorphy: a pseudobulb. We sampled the 13 species of pseudobulbous Tillandsia (including T. intermedia) in addition to 18 species from the five groups of subgenus Tillandsia and four species as outgroups to perform phylogenetic ... Results show that all 13 species of pseudobulbous Tillandsia are placed within a group that also includes ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2010 - American Society of Plant Taxonomists | Systematic Botany
Raquel Pinto, Iván Barría, Pablo A. Marquet,
We assessed the geographic distribution of Tillandsia lomas in northern Chile, from Arica (18°20′S) to the Loa river (21°25′S) and discussed the factors that might ... specimens deposited in herbaria. We detected over 30 Tillandsia stands most of which corresponded to the species Tillandsia landbeckii and can be grouped in 10 large systems. Other two species were also detected Tillandsia marconae and Tillandsia virescens, both of which show a restricted distribution ... results provide evidence on the wide distribution of Tillandsia lomas in northern Chile and its association with ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2005 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Arid Environments
Carolina Granados Mendoza, Xochitl Granados-Aguilar, Sabina Donadío, Gerardo A. Salazar, María Flores-Cruz, Eric Hágsater, Julian R. Starr, Guillermo Ibarra‐Manríquez, Itzi Fragoso-Martínez, Susana Magallón,
The Neotropical genus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) is an excellent model system for macroevolutionary and biogeographic studies owing to its remarkable species diversity (ca. 650 ... knowledge about generic limits and infrageneric classification of Tillandsia. These studies have identified two clades of Tillandsia characterized by a distinct geographic distribution: (i) a ... Central American clade that includes species from subgenus Tillandsia; and (ii) a central South American clade containing ... ca. 30% of the known species diversity of Tillandsia, our analyses found both clades to be strongly ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2017 - Canadian Science Publishing | Botany
Pedro A. Aguilar‐Rodríguez, M. Cristina MacSwiney G., Thorsten Krömer, José G. García‐Franco, Anina Knauer, Michael Kessler,
... that uses a variety of pollinators, principally vertebrates. Tillandsia is the most diverse genus, and includes more ... pollination by hummingbirds; however, the flowers of some Tillandsia species show some characteristics typical for pollination by ... floral and reproductive biology of the epiphytic bromeliad Tillandsia macropetala in a fragment of humid montane forest ... visitors and their effectiveness in pollination were determined.Tillandsia macropetala is a self-compatible species that achieves ... the first report of chiropterophily within the genus Tillandsia. The results on the pollination biology of this ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2014 - Oxford University Press | Annals of Botany
Peng Li, Robert Pemberton, Guiling Zheng,
Epiphytic Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) species have been found to be efficient biomonitors of atmospheric heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants, ... atmospheric pollutant formaldehyde (FA). The absorptive capacity of Tillandsia trichomes is well-established, but potential secondary effects ... gas exchange remain unclear. Our study investigated whether Tillandsia species can absorb FA efficiently and if the leaf trichomes function to improve FA uptake, using Tillandsia velutina. Plants with intact trichomes, decreased FA concentration ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2014 - Elsevier BV | Chemosphere
Jozef Kováčik, Petr Babula, Bořivoj Klejdus, Josef Hedbávný,
... comparing four morphologically variable species of the genus Tillandsia and therefore various responses to the cadmium (Cd) ... expected. In accordance, Cd accumulation increased in order Tillandsia fasciculata < Tillandsia brachycaulos < Tillandsia pruinosa < Tillandsia capillaris, reaching 29.6 and 197.4 μg ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2014 - Elsevier BV | Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
Randall G. Terry, Gregory K. Brown, Richard G. Olmstead,
... ranging from 2.1% between Catopsis zvangerinii and Tillandsia tricholepis, to 0.2% between several species of ... Vriesea is a paraphyletic grade from within which Tillandsia and Guzmania have arisen, and 4) suggest Mezobromelia ... sister-group, Guzmania. All subgenera and sections of Tillandsia and Vriesea for which at least two taxa ... paraphyletic. ndhF sequences support sister-group relationships for Tillandsia utriculata (subg. Tillandsia) and Vriesea espinosae (subg. Vriesea sect. Vriesea), as well as for Tillandsiafutnckiana (subg. Tillandsia) and Vr-iesea malzinei (subg. Vriesea sect. Xiphion). ...
Tópico(s): Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
1997 - American Society of Plant Taxonomists | Systematic Botany
Xingyue Sun, Peng Li, Guiling Zheng,
... is an environmental pollutant with severe biotoxicity. Epiphytic Tillandsia species, especially Spanish moss T. usneoides , are widely ... However, the effects of different Hg concentrations on Tillandsia have been rarely studied and the occurrence of hormesis in Tillandsia species has not been determined. In this study, ... confirm hormesis induced by heavy metal pollution in Tillandsia species.
Tópico(s): Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
2021 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Plant Science
Eduardo Chávez-Sahagún, José Luís Andrade, Gerhard Zotz, Casandra Reyes‐García,
... dew deposition in the physiological response of four Tillandsia species with contrasting morphologies, we performed an experiment ... among the exposed and covered (dew -deprived) plants. Tillandsia elongata and Tillandsia brachycaulos had longer times of dew formation and ... of dew on nocturnal acidity. In contrast, neither Tillandsia yucatana nor Tillandsia fasciculata seemed to be using dew as a ...
Tópico(s): Lichen and fungal ecology
2019 - SAGE Publishing | Tropical Conservation Science
Eva Schreck, Jérôme Viers, Isalyne Blondet, Yves Auda, Mélina Macouin, Cyril Zouiten, Rémi Freydier, Grégory Dufréchou, Jérôme Chmeleff, José Darrozes,
... this study, the relevance of the epiphyte plants Tillandsia usneoides is studied to estimate the transfer of ... site every 2 months over 1 year. The Tillandsia usneoides have been observed with SEM-EDX, and ... the plant surface. By comparing elemental contents in Tillandsia usneoides with regard to the values of the ... similarity of isotopic compositions (Zn and Pb) between Tillandsia usneoides, soils and atmospheric particles also put in ...
Tópico(s): Heavy metals in environment
2019 - Elsevier BV | Chemosphere
Christine Angelini, Brian R. Silliman,
... and juvenile invertebrates in a potential live oak-Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss) facilitation cascade. Our results reveal that trees reduce physical stress to facilitate Tillandsia, which, in turn, reduces desiccation and predation stress ... H' were 5 and 11 times greater in Tillandsia-colonized relative to Tillandsia-removal limb plots. Tillandsia enhanced communities similarly in a survey across the ...
Tópico(s): Lichen and fungal ecology
2013 - Wiley | Ecology
Stefano Mosti, Cynthia Ross Friedman, Ettore Pacini, Luigi Brighigna, Alessio Papini,
The floral nectaries of three Tillandsia L. spp. having different pollinators were investigated with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to describe the previously unstudied ultrastructure of the nectar- ... that these may be linked to pollinator choice. Tillandsia seleriana Mez, which has a strict relationship with ... against pathogens. Epithelial cells of the hummingbird-pollinated Tillandsia juncea (Ruiz et Pav.) Poir. nectary displayed cell ... nectary epithelium and the parenchyma of bat-pollinated Tillandsia grandis Schltdl. possessed a few cubic protein crystals ...
Tópico(s): Plant Parasitism and Resistance
2013 - Canadian Science Publishing | Botany
Wang Fang, Xiaosong Zhang, Junjie Tan, Xiuwei Li,
Abstract Tillandsia usneoides (Spanish moss) is a natural “air plant” characterised with rootless and soilless. It can be intertwined ... intermediate shade. The research project aims in researching Tillandsia usneoides (TU) plant curtain and defining the shading ... thermal performance of the double skin facade with Tillandsia usneoides plant curtain in hot summer in Shanghai, ... coefficient (ISHGC) of double skin facade with different Tillandsia usneoides density were obtained. The experimental data prove ...
Tópico(s): Lichen and fungal ecology
2011 - Elsevier BV | Energy and Buildings
Eva Milocani, Alessio Papini, Luigi Brighigna,
The ultrastructure and ontogeny of bicellular pollen in Tillandsia seleriana Mez (Bromeliaceae) before anther dehiscence has been ... plastid in its cytoplasm, hence plastid inheritance in Tillandsia is confirmed as totally maternal (Lycopersicon type). Contrarily ... long distance. The ecological adaptive plasticity of genus Tillandsia, is confirmed also by morphological characters that appear ... probably, a plesiomorphic character that permitted to genus Tillandsia to differentiate species well adapted to arid environments ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2006 - University of Florence | Caryologia
Epiphytic bromeliads of the genus Tillandsia have been reported as important in the Andean (spectacled) bear diet throughout the bear’s distribution (Mondolfi 1971, 1989; Peyton 1980; ... 10 or more plants at each tree, and Tillandsia fendleri plants have around 50 leaves. Depending on ... Although there are several species of epiphytic bromeliads Tillandsia available in forests between 2,400–3,000 ... them very conspicuous and easily distinguished from smaller Tillandsia species. During work at Quebrada El Molino (Goldstein ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2004 - | Ursus
Yong Cheong Koh, Fred T. Davies,
The genus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) has very few variegated species, and cultivars with chlorophyll-deficient variegation are especially rare. With the objective of inducing chlorophyll-deficient leaf variegation, seeds of Tillandsia fasciculata var. fasciculata were treated with gamma radiation, ... the first reports on the mutagenesis of a Tillandsia species. Stable periclinal chlorophyll-deficient chimeras of Tillandsia species can likely be obtained via mutagenesis if ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2001 - Elsevier BV | Scientia Horticulturae
Ambretta Cecchi Fiordi, Maria R. Palandri,
... of the secretory mechanism of several species of Tillandsia are examined. The results are discussed with special ... also in the receptacle although the ovary of Tillandsia is tipically hy- pogynous. The ultrastructural morphology of ... Therefore the ultrastructure of the septal nectary of Tillandsia shows no significant differences from the Bromeliaceae investigated ... authors. There is, however, a particular aspect in Tillandsia worth underlining, that is the mechanism by which ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1982 - University of Florence | Caryologia
Signe Mikulane, Alexander Siegmund, Camilo del Río, Marcus A. Koch, Pablo Osses, Juan‐Luis García,
... along the Chilean coastal desert are dominated by Tillandsia landbeckii . The average annual precipitation in this hyperarid area lies below 1 mm per year. Tillandsia are specialized in the foliar uptake of fog ... water. The detailed mapping of the distribution of Tillandsia is lacking, making it difficult to understand their ... is to create a detailed spatial distribution of Tillandsia in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile based ... satellite data has been acquired. The extraction of Tillandsia was done with ENVI Deep Learning tools. As ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Arid Environments
Timothy M. Evans, Gregory K. Brown,
... p. 1478-1485 Article PLICATE STAMINAL FILAMENTS IN TILLANDSIA SUBGENUS ANOPLOPHYTUM (BROMELIACEAE) Timothy M. Evans, Timothy M. ... staminal filaments is an important diagnostic character for Tillandsia subgenus Anoplophytum (ca. 45 species). The monophyletic integrity ... filament remain intact. Species traditionally placed in subgenera Tillandsia and Allardtia have been found with plicate staminal ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1989 - Wiley | American Journal of Botany
Clara Groot Crego, Jaqueline Hess, Gil Yardeni, Marylaure de La Harpe, Clara Priemer, Francesca Beclin, Sarah Saadain, Luiz Augusto Cauz‐Santos, Eva M. Temsch, Hanna Weiss‐Schneeweiss, Michael H. J. Barfuss, Walter Till, Wolfram Weckwerth, Karolina Heyduk, Christian Lexer, Ovidiu Paun, Thibault Leroy,
The subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) belongs to one of the fastest radiating clades in the plant kingdom and is characterized by the ... By producing high-quality genome assemblies of a Tillandsia species pair displaying divergent photosynthetic phenotypes, and combining ... pinpoint the genomic drivers of CAM evolution in Tillandsia. Several large-scale rearrangements associated with karyotype changes ... highly dynamic TE landscape shaped the genomes of Tillandsia. However, our analyses show that rewiring of photosynthetic ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
2024 - Oxford University Press | The Plant Cell
Sergio Contreras, Manlio Landahur, Karla García, Claudio Latorre, Mark Reyers, Janet Rethemeyer, Andrea Jaeschke,
... coastal escarpment fueling isolated mono-specific patches of Tillandsia vegetation. In this study, we investigate the lipid biomarker composition of the bromeliad Tillandsia landbeckii (CAM plant) to assess structural adaptations at ... living specimens ( n = 59) collected from the main Tillandsia dune ecosystems across a 350 km coastal transect. ...
Tópico(s): Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
2022 - Springer Science+Business Media | Plant Systematics and Evolution
Alexandre Gonzalez, Zohra Benfodda, David Bénimèlis, Jean‐Xavier Fontaine, Roland Molinié, Patrick Meffre,
... plant ecology. In the past few years, the Tillandsia genus has been scarcely studied according to the ... already undergone in our laboratory on fragrant 3 Tillandsia species to 12 unscented and 2 faint-scented Tillandsia species and hybrids. The headspace solid phase microextraction ( ...
Tópico(s): Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Metabolites
Mame-Marietou Lo, Zohra Benfodda, David Bénimèlis, Jean‐Xavier Fontaine, Roland Molinié, Patrick Meffre,
Tillandsia is a genus belonging to the Bromeliaceae family, most of which are epiphytes. The flowers of some of the Tillandsia species are very fragrant, but the volatile composition ... of volatile compounds emitted by the flowers of Tillandsia xiphioides using the HS-SPME/GC-MS method. ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2021 - American Chemical Society | ACS Omega
Camilo del Río, Felipe Lobos‐Roco, Claudio Latorre, Marcus A. Koch, Juan‐Luis García, Pablo Osses, Fabrice Lambert, Fernando D. Alfaro, Alexander Siegmund,
... moisture supports highly specialized ecosystems, where the bromeliad Tillandsia landbeckii is the dominant species. The fog and ... interconnections and how these variations can affect existing Tillandsia stands. In this study, we analyze FLCs occurrence, ... for understanding the present and past distribution of Tillandsia ecosystems under the extreme conditions characterizing our study ...
Tópico(s): Plant and animal studies
2021 - Springer Science+Business Media | Plant Systematics and Evolution