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Article: Taxonomic study of the genus Tillandsia L. (Bromeliaceae) in the Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico.(Scientific)
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- Journal of the Bromeliad Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Key words: Tillandsia L., Sierra de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Introduction
The neotropical family Bromeliaceae Juss. (Espejo-Serna and Lopez-Ferrari 1998, Barfuss, Samuel et al. 2005) has about 3000 species divided into 56 genera of which Tillandsia L. has the majority of species (Luther 2004.)
In Mexico the genus Tillandsia L. is represented by nearly 200 species (Espejo-Serna, Lopez-Ferrari et al. 2004), Oaxaca is the state with highest species richness (ca. 90 spp.). This group is distributed in almost all the vegetation types found in the country, existing as a very conspicuous element of the epiphytic flora.
The tillandsias have a ...