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______ Bromeliaceae: Profile of an Adaptive Radiation (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000)

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Ehlers, Renate: A Comparison of Tillandsia macdougallii with T. oaxacana (Journal of the Bromeliad Society 39 #6, November-December 1989)
.......................... The Red-Flowered Tillandsias From Brazil (Deutsche Bromelien-Gesellschaft e.V.,  Bochum DE, 1996. English Translation by Derek Butcher)

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Oliva-Esteve, Francisco Bromeliads (Caracas, Armitano Editores, 2000)

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-          The Bromeliad Lexicon. Peter Temple, Editor (London, Blandford, 1979)

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