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Tillandsia usneoides
Tillandsia Til*land"si*a, n. [NL. So named after Prof. Tillands, of Abo, in Finland.] (Bot.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.

Meaning of Usneoid from wikipedia

- include alectorioid, catapyrenioid, cetrarioid, hypogymnioid, parmelioid and usneoid. Lichens are composite organisms made up of multiple species: a fungal...
- resembling grapes. branch A lateral growth of the main stem of a thallus in usneoid lichens; various features of a branch are diagnostically valuable in distinguishing...
- genera) Parmelioid clade (27 genera) Psiloparmelioid clade (2 genera) Usneoid clade (1 genus) Many Parmeliaceae genera do not group phylogenetically...