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Wallisia is a genus of belonging to the family Bromeliaceae. It is also in the Tillandsioideae subfamily.Barfuss, M.H.J., Till, W., Leme, E.M.C., Pinzón, J.P., Manzanares, J.M., Halbritter, H., Samuel, R. & Brown, G.K. (2016). Taxonomic revision of Bromeliaceae subfam. Tillandsioideae based on multi-locus DNA sequence phylogeny and morphology Phytotaxa 279: 1-97
Its native range is central and southern Tropical America (within Belize, northern Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela) and Trinidad and Tobago (in the Caribbean).
| Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Trinidad and Tobago, the Guianas, Venezuela and northern Brazil |
| Ecuador |
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| Ecuador |
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The genus name of Wallisia is in honour of Gustav Wallis (1830–1878), a German plant collector.Lotte Burkhardt (2025). 9783946292265, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. . ISBN 9783946292265
It was first described and published in Ann. Hort. Belge Étrangère Vol.20 on page 97 in 1870.
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