Tillandsia anceps Loddiges in Bot. Cab. 8: pl. 771. 1823 sec. A.R. A. GORTS-VAN RUN 1987
- ≡Platystachys anceps (Loddiges) Beer, Bromel.: 80. 1857
- ≡Vriesea anceps (Loddiges) Lemair. in Ill. Hort. 6 (Misc.): 15. 1859
- ≡Phytarrhiza anceps (Loddiges) E. Morren in Belg. Hortic. 29: pls. 20, 21. 1879
- =Tillandsia xiphostachys in Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Gott. "1864": 14. 1865
- ≡Tillandsia lineatifolia Mez in DC., Monogr. Phan. 9: 686. 1896
