| Name | Tillandsia excelsa Grisebach |
| Authorship | Grisebach |
| Rank | Species |
| NomenclaturalStatus | NomLeg |
| Placed in | Tillandsia Linnaeus |
| GUID | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:125119-1 |
| Citation | 1864 Fl. Brit. W.I. [Grisebach] 597 |
| Holdings | 14 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Tillandsia excelsa Grisebach |
| Identification made in | [no date] (4), 1936 (1), 1970 (2), 1985 (1), 1997 (1), 2004 (5) |