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|accepted_name=Tillandsia usneoides
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|place=1: 411. 1762
|year=1762
}}
|common_names=Spanish-moss;long-moss;black-moss;mousse espagnole;mousse
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Renealmia usneoides
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 287. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Dendropogon usneoides
|authority=(Linnaeus) Rafinesque
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Bromeliaceae;Tillandsia;Tillandsia usneoides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Bromeliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tillandsia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tillandsia usneoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 22
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>pendent in long festoons, flowering to 300 cm. <b>Stems</b> elongate. <b>Leaves</b> 4–8, 2-ranked, often twisted or contorted, gray to silver-gray, 1.5–3 × 0.1–0.2 cm, densely grayish-scaly; sheath pale, narrowly elliptic, not inflated, not forming pseudobulb, 0.2–0.4 cm wide; blade filiform, succulent, margins involute to nearly tubular, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape concealed within leaf sheath, appearing scapeless, pendent with shoot, &#177; 1 mm diam. <b>Floral</b> bracts enveloping flower, erect, green, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), ovate, not keeled, 0.4–0.5 cm, thin-leathery, apex acute, surfaces densely grayish-scaly, venation even to slight. <b>Flowers</b> 1, inconspicuous, apparently sessile; sepals free, ovate, not keeled, 0.6–0.7 cm, thin, veined, apex acute, surfaces glabrous; corolla spreading, petals spreading, yellow-green, elliptic, to 1 cm; stamens included; stigma included, simple-erect. <b>Fruits</b> to 2.5 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic, occasionally on fences, telephone lines
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
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name=Tillandsia usneoides
|authority=(Linnaeus) Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Dendropogon usneoides
|basionyms=Renealmia usneoides
|family=Bromeliaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Epiphytic, occasionally on fences, telephone lines
|elevation=0–300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl., ed. 2
|publication year=1762
|special status=
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|genus=Tillandsia
|species=Tillandsia usneoides
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