Catopsis nitida

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Exotic flora (Plate 218) (9145492678).jpg

|genus = Catopsis

|species = nitida

|authority = (Hooker) Grisebach

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|synonyms = *Tillandsia nitida Hook.

• Tussacia nitida (Hook.) Beer
• Pogospermum nitidum (Hook.) Brongn.
• Pogospermum inconspicuum Brongn.
• Catopsis inconspicua (Brongn.) Baker

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Catopsis nitida is a species in the genus Catopsis. This species is native to southern Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas), Central America, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=232445 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]{{cite journal |last1=Luther |first1=Harry E. |title=An Annotated Checklist of the Bromeliaceae of Costa Rica |journal=Selbyana |date=1995 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=230–234 |url=https://journals.flvc.org/selbyana/article/view/120747 |jstor=41759911 |issn=0361-185X}}{{cite journal |last1=Espejo-Serna |first1=Adolfo |last2=López-Ferrari |first2=Ana Rosa |last3=Ramírez-morillo |first3=Ivón |last4=Holst |first4=Bruce K. |last5=Luther |first5=Harry E. |last6=Till |first6=Walter |title=Checklist of Mexican Bromeliaceae with Notes on Species Distribution and Levels of Endemism |journal=Selbyana |date=1 June 2004 |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=33–86 |url=https://journals.flvc.org/selbyana/article/view/121512 |language=en |issn=2689-0682 |jstor=41760147 }}Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2005). Monocotyledons and Gymnosperms of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 52: 1-415.Espejo-Serna, A. & López-Ferrari, A.R. (2005). Bromeliaceae. Flora de Veracruz 136: 1-307. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones sobre Recursos Bióticos, Xalapa, Veracruz.Espejo-Serna, A., López-Ferrari, A.R., Martínez-Correa, N. & Pulido-Esparza, V.A. (2007). Bromeliad flora of Oaxaca, Mexico: richness and distribution. Acta Botanica Mexicana 81: 71-147. Instituto de Ecología A.C.Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.