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Tillandsia recurvata

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
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Genome
Scientific Literature
Phytochemical Profile
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Internal ID UUID64400f2c03803040157546
Scientific name Tillandsia recurvata
Authority (L.) L.
First published in Sp. Pl. ed. 2 : 410 (1762)

Ethnobotanical Use Top

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General Uses Top

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Common products:
Live plants and cut material for terrariums, living walls, and epiphyte displays.

Industrial and craft applications:
No documented industrial or craft uses are reported in the taxon-specific literature surveyed.

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
No culinary uses are documented for this species.

Colorants and tanning:
No documented dye or tannin applications are reported.

Wood and fiber:
No wood or fiber products are reported; this species lacks significant lignified stems.

Fragrance and cosmetics:
No documented fragrance or cosmetic applications are reported.

Properties relevant to use:
The CAM photosynthetic pathway and dense covering of water‑absorbing trichomes confer drought tolerance and efficient water use, supporting use in low‑maintenance epiphyte plantings.

Standards and regulation:
No established standards or regulatory frameworks are documented for this taxon.

Sustainability and sourcing:
Plants are propagated in cultivation and can be wild‑collected; however, regulations and conservation status were not provided in the surveyed sources, and sustainability guidance remains taxon‑specific literature limited.

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Diaphoranthema recurvata Beer Fam. Bromel. : 156 (1856)
Diaphoranthema uniflora Beer Fam. Bromel. : 154 (1856)
Tillandsia monostachya W.Bartram Travels Carolina , ed. 2: 59 (1794)
Tillandsia pauciflora Sessé & Moc. Fl. Mexic. , ed. 2: 81 (1894)
Tillandsia recurvata f. argentea André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata f. brevifolia André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata f. caespitosa André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata var. ciliata Mez Fl. Bras. 3(3): 610 (1894)
Tillandsia recurvata var. contorta André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata f. contorta André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata f. elongata André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata f. major André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata f. minor André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata f. minuta (Mez ex Mart.) A.Cast. Gen. Sp. Pl. Argent. 3: 347 (1945)
Tillandsia recurvata var. minuta Mez Fl. Bras. 3(3): 611 (1894)
Tillandsia uniflora Kunth Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 290 (1816)
Tillandsia monostachys Gillies ex Baker J. Bot. 16: 239. 1878
Tillandsia recurvata f. genuina André Bromel. Andr. 65 1889
Phytarrhiza ciliata É.Morren Fl. Bras. (Martius) 3(3): 610. 1894 [1 Feb 1894]
Tillandsia pauciflora Griseb. ex Mez Monogr. Phan. 9: 741 1896
Tillandsia recurvata var. argentea André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata var. brevifolia André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata var. caespitosa André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata var. elongata André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata var. genuina André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata var. major André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Tillandsia recurvata var. minor André Bromel. Andr. : 65 (1889)
Renealmia recurvata L. Sp. Pl. : 287 (1753)
Tillandsia recurvata var. contorta (André) André ex Mez Fl. Bras. 3(3): 611 (1894)

Common names Top

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Language Common/alternative name
English small ballmoss
English ball moss
Spanish renealmia recurvata
Spanish tillandsia uniflora
Spanish tillandsia pauciflora
Spanish diaphoranthema uniflora
Spanish diaphoranthema recurvata
Spanish tillandsia monostachya
Spanish tillandsia recurvata var. minuta
Spanish tillandsia recurvata var. genuina
Spanish tillandsia recurvata var. contorta
Korean 공이끼틸란드시아
pap barba di palu
Swedish bågtillandsia
Swedish diaphoranthema recurvata
Swedish renealmia recurvata
Swedish tillandsia pauciflora
Swedish tillandsia uniflora

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Germination/Propagation Top

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

Legend for the distribution data:
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- Extinct
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- Native
  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Northwest
      • Mexico Southeast
      • Mexico Southwest
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
      • Texas
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Louisiana
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil South
      • Brazil Southeast
    • Caribbean
      • Aruba
      • Bahamas
      • Cayman Islands
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Leeward Islands
      • Netherlands Antilles
      • Puerto Rico
      • Turks-caicos Islands
      • Venezuelan Antilles
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
    • Northern South America
      • Venezuela
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Chile North
      • Paraguay
      • Uruguay
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

Links to other databases Top

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000583812
UNII C2FSV7MZMU
Florida Plant Atlas 2829
Flora of Alabama 5452
USDA Plants TIRE
Tropicos 4300584
INPN 630811
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1194855-2
The Plant List kew-269621
Open Tree Of Life 602438
Observations.org 198893
NCBI Taxonomy 588385
Nature Serve 2.139712
IPNI 1194855-2
iNaturalist 84002
GBIF 2695588
Freebase /m/0271dq2
EPPO TLDRE
EOL 346335
Elurikkus 284592
USDA GRIN 400344
Wikipedia Tillandsia_recurvata

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Title Authors Publication Released IDs
Flavonoids with Anti-Angiogenesis Function in Cancer Wei Q, Zhang YH Molecules 31-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC11013936
doi:10.3390/molecules29071570
PMID:38611849
Phytochemicals and bioactive compounds effective against acute myeloid leukemia: A systematic review Egbuna C, Patrick‐Iwuanyanwu KC, Onyeike EN, Khan J, Palai S, Patel SB, Parmar VK, Kushwaha G, Singh O, Jeevanandam J, Kumarasamy S, Uche CZ, Narayanan M, Rudrapal M, Odoh U, Chikeokwu I, Găman M, Saravanan K, Ifemeje JC, Ezzat SM, Olisah MC, Chikwendu CJ, Adedokun KA, Imodoye SO, Bello IO, Twinomuhwezi H, Awuchi CG Food Sci Nutr 15-May-2023
PMCID:PMC10345688
doi:10.1002/fsn3.3420
PMID:37457145
Mexican traditional medicines for women’s reproductive health Cabada-Aguirre P, López López AM, Mendoza KC, Garay Buenrostro KD, Luna-Vital DA, Mahady GB Sci Rep 16-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9935858
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29921-1
PMID:36797354
Mining association rules between lichens and air quality to support urban air quality monitoring in Nigeria Lawal O, Ogugbue CJ, Imam TS Heliyon 19-Jan-2023
PMCID:PMC9898642
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13073
PMID:36747933
Responses of Caribbean Mangroves to Quaternary Climatic, Eustatic, and Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Change: A Review Rull V Plants (Basel) 13-Dec-2022
PMCID:PMC9786987
doi:10.3390/plants11243502
PMID:36559614
Natural Products as Anticancer Agents: Current Status and Future Perspectives Naeem A, Hu P, Yang M, Zhang J, Liu Y, Zhu W, Zheng Q Molecules 30-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9737905
doi:10.3390/molecules27238367
PMID:36500466
New Proposal of Epiphytic Bromeliaceae Functional Groups to Include Nebulophytes and Shallow Tanks Reyes-García C, Pereira-Zaldívar NA, Espadas-Manrique C, Tamayo-Chim M, Chilpa-Galván N, Cach-Pérez MJ, Ramírez-Medina M, Benavides AM, Hietz P, Zotz G, Andrade JL, Cardelús C, de Paula Oliveira R, Einzmann HJ, Guzmán Jacob V, Krömer T, Pinzón JP, Sarmento Cabral J, Wanek W, Woods C Plants (Basel) 17-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9693514
doi:10.3390/plants11223151
PMID:36432880
Tillandsia usneoides Extract Decreases the Primary Tumor in a Murine Breast Cancer Model but Not in Melanoma Lasso P, Rojas L, Arévalo C, Urueña C, Murillo N, Barreto A, Costa GM, Fiorentino S Cancers (Basel) 01-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9656114
doi:10.3390/cancers14215383
PMID:36358804
Isolation and Identification of Flavones Responsible for the Antibacterial Activities of Tillandsia bergeri Extracts Lo MM, Benfodda Z, Dunyach-Rémy C, Bénimélis D, Roulard R, Fontaine JX, Mathiron D, Quéro A, Molinié R, Meffre P ACS Omega 27-Sep-2022
PMCID:PMC9557886
doi:10.1021/acsomega.2c04195
PMID:36249367
Masters of the manipulator: two new hypocrealean genera, Niveomyces (Cordycipitaceae) and Torrubiellomyces (Ophiocordycipitaceae), parasitic on the zombie ant fungus Ophiocordyceps camponoti-floridani Araújo JP, Lebert BM, Vermeulen S, Brachmann A, Ohm RA, Evans HC, de Bekker C Persoonia 13-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC10792228
doi:10.3767/persoonia.2022.49.05
PMID:38234384
How Do Taxonomic and Functional Diversity Metrics Change Along an Aridity Gradient in a Tropical Dry Forest? de Oliveira AC, Nunes A, Oliveira MA, Rodrigues RG, Branquinho C Front Plant Sci 07-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9302379
doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.923219
PMID:35873975
Effect of Replacing Sorghum Stubble with Tillandsia recurvata (L.) on Liveweight Change, Blood Metabolites, and Hematic Biometry of Goats Gámez-Vázquez HG, Rosales-Nieto CA, Urrutia-Morales J, Mellado M, Meza-Herrera CA, Vázquez-García JM, Hernández-Arteaga LE, Negrete-Sánchez LO, Loredo-Osti C, Rivas-Jacobo MA, Beltrán-López S Biology (Basel) 28-Mar-2022
PMCID:PMC9032657
doi:10.3390/biology11040517
PMID:35453716
Developmental Stages Affect the Capacity to Produce Aldehyde Green Leaf Volatiles in Zea mays and Vigna radiata Engelberth J, Engelberth M Plants (Basel) 15-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8875026
doi:10.3390/plants11040526
PMID:35214859
Metabarcoding of the phytotelmata of Pseudalcantarea grandis (Bromeliaceae) from an arid zone Herrera-García JA, Martinez M, Zamora-Tavares P, Vargas-Ponce O, Hernández-Sandoval L, Rodríguez-Zaragoza FA PeerJ 27-Jan-2022
PMCID:PMC8801176
doi:10.7717/peerj.12706
PMID:35127281
Local Knowledge and Use of Medicinal Plants in a Rural Community in the Agreste of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil da Costa Ferreira E, Anselmo MD, Guerra NM, Marques de Lucena C, Felix CD, Bussmann RW, Paniagua-Zambrana NY, Paiva de Lucena RF Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 29-Dec-2021
PMCID:PMC8731275
doi:10.1155/2021/9944357
PMID:35003314

Phytochemical Profile Top

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Name PubChem ID Canonical SMILES MW Found in Proof
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Prenol lipids / Triterpenoids
24,25-Dihydrolanosterol 440560 Click to see CC(C)CCCC(C)C1CCC2(C1(CCC3=C2CCC4C3(CCC(C4(C)C)O)C)C)C 428.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
Lanosterol 246983 Click to see 426.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
Lanosterol, 24,25-dihydro- 65581 Click to see 428.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Cucurbitacins
(3S,8R,9S,13R)-9-ethyl-4,4,13,14-tetramethyl-17-(6-methylheptan-2-yl)-2,3,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,15,16,17-dodecahydro-1H-cyclopenta[a]phenanthren-3-ol 5316233 Click to see 444.80 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Cycloartanols and derivatives
(1S,3R,8R,11R,12S,15R,16R)-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-15-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]pentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecan-6-one 12305362 Click to see CC(CCC=C(C)C)C1CCC2(C1(CCC34C2CCC5C3(C4)CCC(=O)C5(C)C)C)C 424.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
(1S,3R,8R,11R,12S,16R)-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-15-(6-methyl-5-methylideneheptan-2-yl)pentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecan-6-one 137705113 Click to see 438.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
(1S,3R,8R,11S,12S,15R,16R)-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-15-[(2R)-6-methylheptan-2-yl]pentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecan-6-one 21594789 Click to see 426.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
(3R,6S,8R,11S,12S,15R,16R)-7,7,12,16-tetramethyl-15-[(2R)-6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl]pentacyclo[9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16]octadecan-6-ol 145925700 Click to see 426.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
24-Methylene-9beta,19-cyclo-lanostan-3beta-ol 9547213 Click to see 440.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
24-Methylenecycloartanol 94204 Click to see 440.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
7,7,12,16-Tetramethyl-15-(6-methylhept-5-en-2-yl)pentacyclo(9.7.0.01,3.03,8.012,16)octadecan-6-one 348093 Click to see 424.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
Cycloartanol 12760132 Click to see 428.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
Cycloartenol 92110 Click to see CC(CCC=C(C)C)C1CCC2(C1(CCC34C2CCC5C3(C4)CCC(C5(C)C)O)C)C 426.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
> Lipids and lipid-like molecules / Steroids and steroid derivatives / Ergostane steroids / Ergosterols and derivatives
Ergost-4-en-3-one 14537344 Click to see CC(C)C(C)CCC(C)C1CCC2C1(CCC3C2CCC4=CC(=O)CCC34C)C 398.70 unknown https://doi.org/10.1021/NP50126A020
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Cinnamic acids and derivatives / Cinnamic acid esters
[2-Hydroxy-3-(3-phenylprop-2-enoyloxy)propyl] 3-phenylprop-2-enoate 76814010 Click to see 352.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FITOTE.2004.01.003
[2-hydroxy-3-[(E)-3-phenylprop-2-enoyl]oxypropyl] (E)-3-phenylprop-2-enoate 58529094 Click to see C1=CC=C(C=C1)C=CC(=O)OCC(COC(=O)C=CC2=CC=CC=C2)O 352.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FITOTE.2004.01.003
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Cinnamic acids and derivatives / Hydroxycinnamic acids and derivatives / Coumaric acids and derivatives
Ethyl 3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)prop-2-enoate 66883 Click to see 208.21 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FITOTE.2004.01.003
Ethyl Caffeate 5317238 Click to see 208.21 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FITOTE.2004.01.003
> Phenylpropanoids and polyketides / Flavonoids / O-methylated flavonoids / 8-O-methylated flavonoids
(2R)-5-hydroxy-2-(3-hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-6,7,8-trimethoxy-2,3-dihydrochromen-4-one 124355460 Click to see COC1=C(C=C(C=C1)C2CC(=O)C3=C(C(=C(C(=C3O2)OC)OC)OC)O)O 376.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FITOTE.2004.01.003
5,3'-Dihydroxy-6,7,8,4'-tetramethoxyflavanone 91535337 Click to see COC1=C(C=C(C=C1)C2CC(=O)C3=C(C(=C(C(=C3O2)OC)OC)OC)O)O 376.40 unknown https://doi.org/10.1016/J.FITOTE.2004.01.003

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