Lutheria Barfuss & W.Till

Lutheria is a genus of the subfamily Tillandsioideae, family Bromeliaceae.
It is named in honor of American bromeliad expert Harry E. Luther (1952-2012), after the multi-locus DNA sequence phylogeny and morphology study and taxonomic revision of the Tillandsioideae subfamily. (Barfuss et al. 2016. Phytotaxa 279(1): 001-097).
Lutheria contains 4 species, all formerly part of the genus Vriesea. (source: Encyclopaedia of Bromeliads)

bibeatricis
glutinosa
soderstromii
splendens
- var. chlorostachya
- var. formosa
- var. oinochroma
- var. splendens
- var. striatifolia


Updated 27/10/22