| Name | Tillandsia tricolor Schlechtendal & Chamisso |
| Authorship | Schlechtendal & Chamisso |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Tillandsia Linnaeus |
| Contains | Tillandsia tricolor var. picta L. B. Smith |
| Citation | 1831 Linnaea 6: 54 |
| Holdings | 15 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Tillandsia tricolor Schlechtendal & Chamisso |
| Identification made in | [no date] (3), 1942 (2), 1946 (1), 2004 (9) |