Lemeltonia Barfuss & W.Till
Lemeltonia is a genus of the subfamily Tillandsioideae, family Bromeliaceae.
It is named for Brazilian bromeliad expert Elton M. C. Leme, who was part of the collaborative multi-locus DNA sequence phylogeny and morphology study and taxonomic revision of the Tillandsioideae subfamily. (Barfuss et al. 2016. Phytotaxa 279(1): 001-097).
Lemeltonia contains seven known species, all formerly part of the genus Tillandsia. (source: Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads)
acostasolisii, cornuta, dodsonii, monadelpha, narthecioides, scaligera, triglochinoides
Updated 27/10/22