Renealmia usneoides Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 287. 1753.

"Habitat in Virginiae, Jamaicae, Brasiliae arboribus." RCN: 2281.

Basionym of: Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L. (1762) .

Lectotype (Gouda in Görts-van Rijn, Fl. Guianas, ser. A, 3: 68. 1987): Herb. Clifford: 129, Renealmia 1 (BM-000558543) .

Current name: Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L. ( Bromeliaceae).

Note: Although Smith & Downs (in Fl. Neotropica 14: 900. 1977) treated material in the Sloane herbarium (BM-SL) as the type, this was not studied by Linnaeus and is not original material for the name.